The well is known as Tobar Caoch, meaning Well of the Blind, and its reputation drew people who observed a precise and largely silent ritual: rise early, walk to the well, pay your rounds, and speak to no one until you had returned home after mass. The rounds in question refer to the devotional practice of walking a set circuit around the holy site a prescribed number of times, often while reciting prayers, a tradition found at holy wells across Ireland. At Skarragh, those circuits were made specifically in hope of a cure for sore eyes.

A photograph from May 1913 shows the well still clearly visible, set into a field fence and lined with stone, its opening framed by a simple stone lintel. By the time Bowman recorded it in 1934, the practice of paying rounds on Sunday mornings was apparently still alive, though already carrying the slightly fragile quality of a custom that people feel they should document. Local memory places visits continuing into the 1950s, with rags tied to the bushes nearby, a widespread element of holy well devotion in which strips of cloth, sometimes called clooties, were left as offerings or tokens of petition. The well itself has since been covered over, and its water is now pumped to a nearby dwelling, which gives it a quietly strange double existence: a site of healing ritual reduced to domestic plumbing, though the stone slabs sealing it remain in the pasture.