Another holds that a trout will appear to those whose prayers are about to be answered. These are not unusual claims for an Irish holy well, but what sets this one apart is the sheer scale of the annual gathering that still surrounds it. The 15th August pattern here is, according to the folklore record, the largest of its kind in County Limerick, a day that draws not just the devout but, historically, tinkers, card-sharpers, thimble-riggers, and at least one man with a shooting gallery who stationed himself at the church gate and called out his prices to the passing crowd.

The well appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1840 as Lady's Well and sits within a churchyard that also contains the ruins of an ancient monastery, with burials recorded inside the ruin itself. Folklore collected through the Irish Schools' Collection in the late 1930s describes whitethorn trees throughout the graveyard and a bush beside the well where visitors once tied coloured rags after completing their rounds, a practice known across Ireland as part of the ritual logic of holy wells, where the rag was thought to carry away illness or carry a petition. By the time the folklorist Caoimhín Ó Danachair documented the site in 1955, this custom had fallen away, though the rounds themselves had not. The pattern day ritual involved kneeling and praying at four stations, one of them inside the church ruin where a cross was marked, and the well itself has since been embellished with statues of Our Lady and St Bernadette Soubirous. The well's origin story follows a familiar sacred geography: an ailing woman dreamed of a cure, came to the spot, and was healed.

The well is within Ballylanders churchyard in east County Limerick, not far from the Galtee Mountains. For those interested in the full ritual circuit, the stations include the well itself, three further stopping points, and the monastery ruin. The water flows from the well into a small overflow basin. May and August are the months when the well sees most devotional activity, with the 15th of August still the focal point. Photographs taken by Ó Danachair in 1954 are held in the National Folklore Collection at UCD and can be viewed through the Dúchas.ie archive.