Known formally as the Well of the Cross and more popularly as the Patron Well, it once issued a neatly enclosed spring of pure fresh water before falling into the kind of quiet disrepair that overtook many such sites as the nineteenth century wore on.

Writing between 1880 and 1883, the historian Hogan recorded that the well had, within living memory, been a carefully maintained spring, and that the two "patrons" associated with it, that is, the patron days or pattern days on which the local community would gather for devotion, prayer, and festivity, were still being observed at Grange not long before he was writing. He was also told that in the early part of the nineteenth century, May Sunday had been a notable gala day in the village. The historian Carrigan, writing in 1905, corroborated the location, placing the holy well on the roadside between Grange village and the chapel. Pattern days of this kind were a deeply rooted feature of Irish religious life, combining veneration of a local saint or sacred water source with the kind of communal gathering, music, and socialising that made them both spiritually significant and socially important. Their decline across the nineteenth century was often the result of clerical disapproval as much as simple neglect.