Though marked on 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps, the exact well remains elusive among the rocky pools near the foreshore. This holy well, along with the nearby Blessed Virgin’s Well, forms part of an ancient turus, or pilgrimage route, that honours St. Connell, the island’s patron saint whose feast day falls on 22 May.

The pilgrimage season traditionally ran from St. Connell’s feast day until 12 September, during which time devotees would perform stations around the island’s sacred sites. Central to these rituals was the Bearnan Conall, St. Connell’s Gapped Bell, a venerable relic that pilgrims would kiss as part of their devotions. This bell passed through generations of the Gearan family, who likely served as erenachs or monastic stewards, before eventually reaching the Breslin family. In a move that local tradition suggests brought misfortune; the Breslins sold the bell to the Nesbitts of Woodhill around the 1860s or 1870s, with folklore claiming that all the livestock purchased with the proceeds subsequently died. The bell now resides in the British Museum, far from its spiritual home.

Local belief holds that St. Connell himself returns to visit the island each year on 1 June, maintaining his connection to this sacred landscape where he is said to be buried alongside the poet Dallan Forgall. The enduring spiritual significance of these wells and their associated traditions was documented by the scholar Ó Muirgheasa in 1936, preserving details of rituals that connected medieval Irish Christianity with the island’s monastic past, even as physical traces of these holy sites become increasingly difficult to identify among the weathered coastal rocks.