One is ringed by a circular drystone wall just over a metre across, its entrance facing west; the other, a metre to the south, is squared off with mortared stone and retains a stone-lined overflow channel running under its south-eastern entrance. By 1931, the Ordnance Survey was mapping a circular pathway that wound around the pair of them, though by the time anyone looked closely on the ground, not a trace of it remained. The site carries the name of Saint Brendan, and a limestone slab some seven metres to the west, carved with a crucifixion scene and dated to the seventeenth or eighteenth century, is traditionally held to mark his grave.

Holy wells in Ireland function as focal points for patterns of local devotion, typically combining a natural water source with prayers, offerings, and circumambulation, that circular path recorded on the old map fitting neatly into that tradition. The Brendan in question is associated with this corner of north Galway, and while the carved limestone slab is relatively recent in historical terms, the act of marking a saint's resting place with an inscribed stone speaks to a long habit of maintaining sacred geography across generations. O'Flanagan, writing in 1927, noted the site, suggesting it was already recognised as locally significant well before the 1984 inspection. The wells and the slab have since been attended to by a local group, so the condition recorded in the mid-1980s does not represent the site's final state.