The well itself is roofed with a single limestone slab, and above that sits a concrete box with a flag roof sheltering a collection of religious statues. Holly and whitethorn grow close behind the structure. The ritual associated with the site was unusually precise: five Paters, Aves, and Glorias said kneeling at the well, followed by five decades of the Rosary recited while walking five times clockwise around it, before the round concluded with three sips of water taken in the names of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and a final blessing of the eyes. That last detail, the blessing of eyes with water from the well, points to the kind of localised curative tradition that once attached to hundreds of similar sites across Ireland, where a spring's sanctity was bound up with specific ailments as well as general devotion.

The well appears on Ordnance Survey maps as far back as 1840, named Tobercravan, a form of the Irish Tobar-na-Crabhain. John O'Donovan, the nineteenth-century scholar who systematically documented Irish place names for the original OS survey, recorded in 1839 that stations, the penitential rounds of prayer performed at holy wells, were still being carried out there and that cures were expected. Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1910, noted that the patron saint of the well was uncertain. P. Barry, writing in 1976, identified the patron as St Craven, described as a contemporary of St Caimin of Ballykinvarga, and also recorded that the penannular enclosure, a drystone wall forming an almost complete circle around the well, was built around the same year by the landowner. By the late 1990s, however, E. Lenihan found that knowledge of the well had grown thin in the local area, a pattern that repeated across many such sites as the communal memory sustaining them quietly faded.