What makes it quietly curious is not its size but its ambiguity. There is no fabric of devotion around it, no rags tied to nearby branches, no votive offerings, none of the usual signs that a well was ever the focus of patterns or pilgrimages. The only anomalous object nearby is the base of a small ornamental pillar, a stone stub with a base diameter of thirty-four centimetres and a height of just twenty-five centimetres, sitting close to the pool without obvious explanation.

The well appears, labelled in gothic script, on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1839 and 1941, which tells us that it was considered worth recording across more than a century, even if no living tradition of veneration seems to have survived to be documented. The saint invoked is almost certainly Lorcán O'Toole, the twelfth-century Archbishop of Dublin who was canonised in 1225 and is known in Irish as Lorcán Ua Tuathail. According to the scholar Pádraig Ó Riain, this is likely a relatively late dedication to him rather than an ancient one. That matters in the context of holy wells, where the choice of patron can sometimes tell us something about when a site entered local religious life. The well sits roughly sixty metres north of the point where its small stream joins the Ballyvoleen River, which runs broadly east to west through the landscape below.