In summer it ran cold; in winter, warm. These inversions of the expected were taken as signs of something other than ordinary groundwater, and people came here believing it could cure headaches. Today, the area where the well once sat is overgrown, and what survives is a stone-lined, covered channel, roughly two metres long, through which the spring water still moves. The ritual practice of making rounds, the customary walking of a prescribed circuit around a holy well while reciting prayers, has not been observed here within living memory.

The well's history carries a displacement at its centre. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman recorded that the holy well had at some point been moved across the Gleann Garbh, the rough or rugged glen from which the area takes its Irish name, from the adjoining townland of Currabower to the south. The mechanics and reasons for such a removal are not recorded, but the translocation of a holy well was not unheard of in Irish folk tradition; the sanctity of the water was understood to travel with it. Whether the spring itself was redirected, or whether the ritual focus simply shifted to a new point along the same watercourse, is now impossible to say. What the 1934 account preserves is at least a partial memory of the well's earlier location, across the glen in Currabower, before it came to rest on the northern bank where it now lies buried under vegetation.