There, surrounded by large boulders, a shallow ovoid pool of water sits connected to the pump-house by a pipe, functioning now as a kind of reservoir. That arrangement is what remains of St. Bridget's Well, a holy well dedicated to Ireland's patron saint, which was once described by the folklorist and photographer Caoimhín Ó Danachair in 1955 as a clear, strong spring issuing from cracks in the limestone. The spring sits on an east-facing slope where limestone outcrops naturally, and a stream runs immediately to the east. The well had already been abandoned by the early nineteenth century, and the pump-house came later, effectively burying the site beneath utility.

The folklore surrounding it, recorded by pupils at Nutgrove National School and preserved in the Schools' Collection compiled in the 1930s, adds a layer of older belief to the place. According to the account, a woman once washed clothes in the well, an act considered a serious transgression at any sacred spring, and as a result the well moved forty yards from its original position. Children at the school were told that a large flat stone marked where the well had formerly sat, with a drain running from beneath that stone down to the current location. Behind the well lies a circular raised enclosure, higher than the surrounding field, where children who died of plague were said to have been buried long ago; several stones and markers remained visible when the account was written. That enclosure is recorded separately as a distinct archaeological site. The slippery flag stone between the original well site and the burial ground was noted as a peculiarity even by the schoolchildren who described it.

The site sits in pasture about a quarter of a mile south of Nutgrove National School, and the land is privately farmed, so access is not guaranteed without permission. The pump-house makes the spot easier to locate than many overgrown holy wells, though the sacred character of the place is now largely invisible without knowing what to look for. The boulders surrounding the shallow pool beside the eastern wall, the raised circular ground to the rear, and the flat stone said to mark the original well position are the details worth seeking out. Photographs taken by Ó Danachair in 1954, held by the National Folklore Collection at UCD, show the site before it reached its current state and are accessible through the Dúchas archive online.