A holy well tucked into a small pocket of enclosed woodland along the western edge of the Naas-Sallins road in County Kildare, this site was once a place of active pilgrimage, visited by people seeking a cure for sore eyes. The remedy, as with many such wells across Ireland, lay in the water itself, believed to carry healing properties particular to the saint whose name the well bears.

Patterns, the traditional gatherings held at holy wells combining prayer, ritual, and often festivity, were observed here on the 17th of March each year. Jackson, writing in 1979 to 1980, recorded that the custom had by then already ceased, though researchers Bradley and colleagues, surveying the site in 1986, found it still in use and noted that it had acquired a modern stone surround. The well thus sat in a quiet transitional state, no longer drawing pilgrims in the old communal sense, but not yet entirely abandoned either.