A concrete pipe now taps directly into the source, and there is no visible stonework to suggest that anything of religious or historical significance lies beneath. Holy wells, known in Irish as toibreacha beannaithe, were focal points of pre-Christian and later Christian devotion across Ireland, often associated with patron saints and visited on particular feast days for prayer, blessing, or healing. This one bears the name Tober Patrick, the anglicised form of Tobar Phádraig, Patrick's Well, and would once have carried the kind of local ceremonial weight common to such sites throughout the west of Ireland.

The well sits within the townland of Bawn, in the area surveyed as part of the Ballinrobe and Lough Mask and Lough Carra district, a region whose landscape holds a considerable concentration of early Christian and prehistoric remains. Its current state, a utilitarian pipe feeding from a waterlogged patch of ground with no masonry surround, reflects what happened to many such wells across rural Ireland over the twentieth century. Drainage improvements, agricultural changes, and the slow retreat of the devotional practices that once maintained them left sites like this without the community attention needed to preserve their physical form.