It is cold to the touch even in midsummer and has never, by any account, run dry. Known as St. Fintan's Well, and occasionally as the Wishing Well, it now lies within the garden of a private residence, quietly persisting in a landscape that has grown up around it. Rags and medals are still tied to a wire arch above the water, and a statue of the Sacred Heart has been placed at the entrance, small gestures that signal the well is still, in its way, in use.

The well's association with St. Fintan links it to a much older religious landscape on the same stretch of road. Folklore collected from Howth School records that the spring was believed to be connected with St. Fintan's Church or oratory, the ruins of which survive in St. Fintan's Cemetery, nearly opposite the entrance to Howth Golf Club. The schoolchildren's account, preserved in the Dúchas Schools' Collection (Volume 0792), describes the well as it stood on land belonging to a Mr Davidson, with the right-of-way entrance crossing the old hill tram line of the Great Northern Railway. At that time, three wire arches spanned the well, hung with rags and ribbons in the tradition of rag wells, where offerings are tied to mark a visit or a petition. A pattern, meaning a communal act of devotion held on a saint's feast day, was never recorded here; instead, visitors came individually, said three Hail Marys in honour of St. Fintan, drank from the spring, and walked around it three times. The water was credited with curing sore eyes, stomach disorders, and bodily ailments more generally, as noted by Caoimhín Ó Danachair in 1958.

Because the well now sits within a private garden, it is not freely accessible to the public, and there is no waymarked route to it. The folklore account places it just off the main road from Sutton to Howth Summit, in the corner of a field that was once fenced off from the surrounding land. Visitors interested in the wider context of the site can find the ruined church associated with St. Fintan in the nearby cemetery on the same road. Photographs taken by Ó Danachair are held by the National Folklore Collection at UCD and can be viewed through the Dúchas digital archive, offering a sense of how the well appeared in the mid-twentieth century, when its wire arches and surrounding path were still more or less intact.