The ground around it is wet and scrubby, a fallen tree now lies across the area, and the well itself has almost certainly been blocked up at some point, leaving no visible trace at ground level. Its absence is, in its own way, as telling as its presence once was.

The well is dedicated to St Bridget, one of Ireland's patron saints, and its name, Toberbreedia, is an anglicised form of the Irish for Bridget's well. Holy wells of this kind served as focal points for a practice known as "doing the stations", a form of ritual prayer and circumambulation that persisted at many Irish sacred sites long after the formal structures of the church had moved on. Writing in the Ordnance Survey Letters for County Clare in 1839, a contributor named Curry recorded that stations were still being performed at this well at that time, which suggests it remained an active site of local devotion well into the nineteenth century. The well appears by name on all the historical Ordnance Survey mapping of the area, which gives it a paper presence even as its physical one has faded.