The surveyors compiling the Ordnance Survey Letters noted it was still held in veneration, yet no longer visited for cures or devotion, a distinction that captures a particular moment in the slow fading of a tradition rather than its outright end. The well was known in Irish as Tobar Brighde, meaning the well of Brighid, connecting it to the cult of Saint Bridget, one of Ireland's most widely venerated saints, whose association with sacred springs and healing waters runs deep across the country.

The OS Letters place the well about half a mile east of the local church, near the house of a Major Butler, which situates it within a landscape of gentry settlement and older religious geography existing side by side. Holy wells dedicated to Saint Bridget were typically sites of pattern days, local gatherings held on or around her feast day of 1 February, where people would pray, walk a prescribed circuit, and leave offerings in hopes of a cure. The 1839 account suggests that by that point the ritual practice had lapsed at this particular well, even while some residual sense of its significance remained among local people. Whether that veneration was devotional, habitual, or simply a reluctance to fully let go is not something the record makes clear.