By the 1919 edition, however, it had a name: Tobernabochilla. The name itself, in the Irish tradition of place-names that function as compressed histories, suggests a long association with devotional practice, even if the details of that practice have not survived in the documentary record. What makes the site particularly arresting is not the well alone but what lies immediately to its north, just 1.6 metres away on a gentle rise in the ground: an ogham stone. Ogham is an early medieval script, typically carved as a series of notches and lines along the edge of a standing stone, and its presence here, in such close proximity to a holy well, points to a layering of significance across many centuries.

The well itself is modest in construction but carefully considered. A roughly-built drystone wall encloses a squarish depression of approximately two metres north to south and 1.4 metres east to west, dropping to a depth of around 0.8 metres. The enclosing wall, only about 0.3 metres above the surrounding ground, has been so thoroughly colonised by moss and sod that it reads more as a low earthen rim than a built structure. A narrow gap on the southern side allows water to flow out, and a large flat stone set into the base of the well on the same side may once have served as a step for those drawing water or performing whatever ritual the site once demanded. Three hawthorn bushes grow on the eastern side; the hawthorn is a tree long associated in Irish tradition with sacred wells and boundary places. The water, weed-covered and shallow, remains present at the base.