The well is dedicated to St Commadan, and though the water had dried up entirely by the time it was last formally visited, the physical structure remains legible: three low walls arranged on a northeast-southwest axis, roughly two metres long and one and a half metres wide, open to the south. The floor at the entrance is laid with limestone flags, even though no steps survive to lead a visitor down to them.

Holy wells in Ireland were often sites of "stations", a practice involving prescribed circuits of prayer performed at specific points around a sacred site, sometimes on bare knees. According to the Ordnance Survey Letters compiled by O'Flanagan in 1927, stations were performed at this well on Sundays, suggesting it held a modest but genuine place in the rhythm of local religious life. The saint to whom it is dedicated, St Commadan, is an obscure figure; the name does not belong to any widely documented Irish saint, which itself hints at the intensely local nature of many well dedications, saints whose cults rarely spread beyond a single parish or townland. A hawthorn tree grows at the southwest corner of the enclosure. Hawthorns are a recurring presence at Irish holy wells, traditionally associated with the boundary between the everyday world and something older, and generally left uncut out of long-standing custom.