The bank surrounding it, standing about 1.2 metres high and enclosing a near-square area of roughly 5.7 by 5.5 metres, gives the well a formal, almost ceremonial setting. Steps cut into the south-west corner of the bank lead down to the water, and the ground around the well is partially paved with stone. Votive offerings, small objects and tokens left by those who visit in the hope or gratitude of something, cluster around the rim, evidence that this is not simply an old agricultural feature but a place still actively tended.

The well sits about 210 metres north of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, a spatial relationship that is typical of many Irish holy wells, which were often associated with early Christian sites and the local saints connected to them. What is recorded about the devotional practice here is specific and somewhat rare in its precision. Writing in 1934, a source named Bowman noted that rounds are still paid at the well on Good Friday, but on that day only a single visit is made. The practice extends through May, when rounds are paid on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays throughout the month. Paying rounds at a holy well typically means walking a prescribed circuit around it, often a set number of times, while reciting prayers, a pre-Christian ritual form that was absorbed into Catholic devotion and survived in pockets of rural Ireland long after it faded elsewhere. That Bowman was recording an active tradition in 1934, and that votive offerings are still present, suggests the well at Curraheen has held its place in local religious life across a considerable stretch of time.