Beside it, just to the west, is a low suboval penitential cairn, a mound of stones where pilgrims would traditionally walk or kneel in prayer as part of a pattern of devotional ritual. When the site was inspected in 2000, a lead or pewter crucifix was found resting on the western section of the enclosing wall, and coins lay scattered among the loose stones. These small deposits suggest the well was still being visited, quietly and without ceremony, long after any organised pattern day had lapsed.

The well has been recorded on Ordnance Survey maps since at least 1842, when it was already marked by name, and it appears again on the 1920 edition. The antiquarian T. J. Westropp, writing between 1900 and 1902, noted a local tradition connecting the well to Iníon Baoith, the patron saint of the neighbouring parish of Kilnaboy. That dedication would make it unusual, as saints of that early medieval period are not always easy to trace, and Kilnaboy's church remains a significant early Christian site in the Burren. More recently, however, the well has been associated instead with St Colman, a name attached to a great many holy wells and early church sites across Connacht and Munster. Whether the original dedication was forgotten, displaced, or simply disputed, the well has collected more than one saintly identity over the centuries.

The circular drystone enclosure wall that surrounds the basin survives only partially. It stands to its full interior height of around 1.5 metres on the western side, but has collapsed elsewhere and in places the fallen stones partly cover the well itself. A narrow channel, approximately half a metre wide, was cut into the rock to carry water eastward from the basin. The combination of the rock-cut basin, the channel, and the enclosing wall suggests considerable effort was once invested in this site, even if what remains today appears fragmentary and a little tumbledown.