That alone is unusual; holy wells in Ireland are common enough, but a cluster of three attributed to a single figure, connected by a small stream that runs between them, gives this place a particular character. The westernmost spring is enclosed by a drystone wall, roughly square in plan and about eighty centimetres deep, which once stood five courses high but has since begun to collapse. A low opening faces east, and water runs from it across the grassland to the next well some twenty-five metres away.

The 19th-century Ordnance Survey Letters, compiled by John O'Donovan and his colleagues and later edited by Michael O'Flanagan in 1927, record two of these springs as very celebrated holy wells dedicated to St Brendan, at which "turrises are performed on Sundays and Fridays". Turas, in this context, refers to a devotional circuit, a pattern of prayers and ritual movement around a sacred site, often performed barefoot and at specific stations. The practice was common at Irish holy wells and could draw considerable numbers of people on the patron saint's feast day or on customary weekdays. St Brendan, most likely Brendan of Clonfert, the sixth-century monk associated with a legendary Atlantic voyage, had a wide cult across the west of Ireland, and wells bearing his name appear in several Connacht parishes. What is less easy to explain is why three springs so close together would each carry his dedication, or whether the turas once moved between them as a sequence.

By the time of the most recent recorded visit, the westernmost well had acquired a more practical role: it appeared to be in use as a watering place for cattle. The drystone enclosure was in poor condition, and whatever ritual life the site once had was not in obvious evidence. The stream still connects it to the others, running quietly downslope through the grass.