Most holy wells in Ireland carry freight: rounds walked at certain hours, rags tied to nearby thorns, a patron saint's name attached to the water. This one in Kilbeg, County Waterford, has none of that. Dry, rectangular, and quietly forgotten on a stretch of flat lowland ground, it sits without ceremony or devotion, and apparently always did.

The well appears by name on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1840 and 1927, labelled 'Toberavaw', which suggests it was considered a feature worth recording even as its practical use may have been fading. The structure itself is stone-lined, measuring roughly 1.1 metres by 0.7 metres and about 0.6 metres deep, with a stone-lined channel running off to the south-west, most likely to drain or direct the water when it still flowed. The Douglas stream runs approximately 200 metres to the south-west, which may explain the original hydrology of the site. A laneway once led in from the east, providing clear access; that approach has since disappeared entirely from the landscape. There is no record of the well ever having been a site of religious or folk veneration, which is itself unusual. In Irish tradition, a tobar, or well, was frequently associated with a local saint or with curative properties, and the absence of any such layer here sets this one apart from the broader pattern.