The uncertainty is not a minor technicality. It has never appeared on any edition of the Ordnance Survey maps, which means it escaped the systematic recording that brought hundreds of sacred wells into the official landscape. Without that cartographic recognition, the question of what exactly this feature was, or is, remains genuinely open.

The well sits just outside the eastern edge of a rath, a type of enclosed ringfort typically constructed during the early medieval period, defined by an earthen bank and used as a farmstead or place of refuge. Its position on the exterior side of the enclosure is worth noting; many features associated with raths are found within the bank, so this placement sets it slightly apart. The structure itself is a drystone lined semi-circular trough, built without mortar in the traditional dry-laid manner, and in front of it lies a loose scattering of stones. That scatter is ambiguous. It could be the remnants of a small structure, the debris of long-informal devotional activity, or simply collapsed fabric. C. Toal recorded it in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, cataloguing it as entry 916, and the cautious classification as a possible holy well has remained since.