The well itself is a modest thing measured in fractions of a metre, with drystone walling on three sides, a narrow entrance gap, and steps leading down to water sitting a full metre below ground level. Yet when it was inspected in 1999, the offerings left there were unexpectedly varied: crockery, coins dated between 1929 and 1978, rosary beads, a metal crucifix, and a metal statue of St Martin de Porres, a twentieth-century Peruvian Dominican friar canonised in 1962. The presence of his likeness at an Early Medieval Irish holy well quietly illustrates how living folk traditions absorb new devotions without losing older ones.

The well is dedicated to Iníon Baoith, an Early Medieval Irish saint whose cult was particularly strong across this part of Clare, centred especially on the parish of Killinaboy nearby. The Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks of the 1830s recorded seventeen holy wells dedicated to her in the region, suggesting a depth of popular veneration that outlasted the Reformation, the Penal Laws, and the upheavals of the nineteenth century. The well appears by name on the first edition OS six-inch map of 1842 and again on the Cassini edition of 1920, which at least confirms continuous recognition of the site across those decades. The feast day of Iníon Baoith falls on 29th December, a midwinter date that would have made pattern-day visits, the traditional rounds of prayer performed at holy wells, a notably austere undertaking, though whether this well ever hosted a formal pattern is not recorded. What is recorded is the belief that the water here could cure sore eyes, a curative tradition attached to many Irish holy wells and one that drew pilgrims to such sites long before and long after the formal structures of the Church took notice.