The well, known as Tobar Mochuille, has been blocked up and backfilled, and the slight depression on the pasture surface is the only physical hint that anything of significance ever stood here. Holy wells in Ireland were traditionally sites of pilgrimage and prayer, where devotees would perform "stations", a ritual circuit of prayer and movement around a sacred site, often tied to the feast day of a particular saint. The name Mochuille suggests a dedication to an early Irish saint, though the well's precise ecclesiastical connections are not elaborated in surviving local records.

When John Curry wrote about this part of Clare in 1839, for the Ordnance Survey Letters, he noted that stations were still being performed at Tobar-Mochuille in the townland of Knockdromleagh. The well appeared by name on the 1840 edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, a sign that it was considered a landmark of some local consequence. By the time the 1921 edition was produced, it had vanished from the cartographic record entirely. Local memory adds a further complication: a well in the same vicinity was used as a practical draw well, a source of everyday water, until it too was blocked up. Whether the holy well and the draw well were one and the same source, or two distinct features that happened to sit close together, is genuinely uncertain. The twenty-five-inch Ordnance Survey map appears to show them as separate, which would mean that the act of religious pilgrimage and the act of fetching water were taking place, side by side, at two different points in the same field.