The well is enclosed within a drystone border, that is, a wall built without mortar, relying on the careful placement of stone alone, and covered with a low arch of the same construction. That a working spring should be both framed and half-buried by cairn material gives the site an odd, compressed quality, as though the landscape has been slowly pressing down on it over centuries.

The cairn beside the well is no ordinary field monument. It is also a penitential station, a place where devotional circuits, known in Irish tradition as "rounds", would historically have been performed, typically involving prayer and the repetition of set movements around sacred points in a fixed sequence. Such stations are often associated with a patron saint's feast day and can combine pre-Christian landscape features with later Christian practice. The kidney shape of this particular cairn is itself unusual, and the relationship between the cairn mass and the well at its western indentation suggests the two elements were understood as connected parts of a single sacred site. The dedication to Saint Patrick places it within a very widespread tradition of Patrician holy wells across Ireland, though the specific character of this site, its spring feeding quietly from beneath a monument of loose stone, gives it a distinctly unassuming presence.