The path itself is as much of a historical artefact as the well it leads to.

The well is a small but carefully constructed thing. Dry-stone walling defines its sides, splaying outward from a rear width of around 0.4 metres to a mouth of roughly one metre, and the whole is covered with corbelled limestone lintels, a technique in which flat stones are laid in overlapping courses to form a rough vault without mortar. The interior depth runs to about 0.64 metres, with a height of 0.75 metres. It appears on both the 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps and the 1903 to 1904 edition, labelled consistently as St. Brogan's Well, which suggests it was a recognised landmark across the better part of two centuries of mapping. The saint in question is likely the sixth-century Brogan associated with the Clonbrogan area of Tipperary, one of the lesser-documented figures of the early Irish church. The well's condition has suffered one particular piece of bad luck: when a neighbouring ash tree fell, it brought down the outer lintels with it, leaving that section of the corbelled cover incomplete.