The well itself is a modest circular hollow, roughly a metre across and shallower on its eastern side than its western, with no stonework lining its walls. Two cement steps on the north side lead down into it, but the water is long gone. What makes it stranger still is that the well appears to have absorbed the memory of another site altogether.

About thirty metres to the south lies Tober Mhuire, a second holy well once associated with a pattern, the traditional Irish gathering for prayer and communal celebration at a sacred site, held between the 15th of August and the 8th of September each year. By the 1930s, the memory of that pattern had quietly detached itself from Tober Mhuire and attached itself to Tober Patrick instead, while the original Marian well faded from local recollection. The 1835 and 1911 editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map both label the site 'Tober Patrick' in gothic lettering, confirming the Patrick association was well established even before this shift occurred. The Schools Manuscripts from the 1930s, a nationwide folklore collection compiled by schoolchildren under the direction of the Irish Folklore Commission, record cures associated with the well, and note the ash tree immediately to the south as a rag-tree, a tree on which strips of cloth were tied as votive offerings in the hope of healing. When the site was examined in 2003, no rags or other evidence of this practice remained on the tree. The memorial stone beside the steps, modest in size at sixty centimetres tall, carries an inscription alongside the date 1775, though the precise nature of that inscription is not recorded in detail.