The well known as Toberchríost, meaning Christ's Well, was the site of a pattern, one of the communal gatherings of prayer, socialising, and ritual that centred on holy wells across Ireland, often held on the feast day of a local saint or a significant date in the liturgical year. Here the occasion was St. John's Eve, the 28th of June. By around 1820, however, the pattern had ceased entirely, leaving behind a spring, a stream running southward, and very little else to mark what had once been a recurring community event.

The main source for the well's former significance is the antiquarian John O'Donovan, who noted the pattern's former existence when writing around 1840, by which point it had already been gone for roughly two decades. O'Donovan's observation was later published in the O'Flanagan collection of 1933. What makes Toberchríost quietly curious today is the gap between its name and its present condition. The well sits in a natural hollow towards the bottom of a south-east-facing slope, with a low hill rising about 400 metres to the south-east, and while it remains a functioning natural spring and the source of a small stream, there is now no physical evidence of veneration at the site: no carved stonework, no votive offerings, no enclosure. Whatever structures or markers may once have accompanied the pattern gatherings have left no visible trace. Archaeological testing of roughly 14 hectares to the west and south-west of the well did turn up potential archaeological material in five of twenty-three test trenches, suggesting that the broader landscape carries buried traces of past activity, though none of this has been directly linked to the well itself.