What makes it quietly worth noting is the remnant of a semi-circular drystone wall that curves along its northern edge, a low arc of dry-laid stone that was once the well's defining feature and now leans into a tangle of overgrowth. Drystone construction, mortarless walling built entirely from the weight and fit of its own stones, is common enough in the west of Ireland, but here it marks something that carried a particular kind of local significance.

The well appears on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map under the name Toberusta, and the same name was carried forward into the 1947 to 1948 revision, suggesting a continuity of recognition across more than a century of mapping. The prefix tobar is the Irish word for well, and wells bearing that name across Ireland have frequently been associated with religious or healing traditions. This one was locally regarded as a holy well, the kind of site where patterns, informal gatherings combining prayer with social ritual, were once observed. By the time surveyors visited, however, it had not been used as such for many years. The retaining wall was in poor condition, its stonework loosening, with dense vegetation pressing in from the east and west.