The structure is drystone-built with a lintel across the top, a modest but deliberate piece of construction that has sheltered the water for centuries. What makes the place quietly arresting is that combination: the carved slabs arranged in front like a small congregation, the well itself recessed into the hillside, and the knowledge that this was once a place of formal, calendrical devotion.

The well is known in Irish as Tobar Ghobnaite, the well of Gobnait, a saint particularly associated with County Cork but venerated across Munster. It lies roughly 200 metres south-east of Killinane Church and graveyard, and the old trackway beside it suggests the well was a waypoint in a landscape that people moved through with purpose. A pattern was formerly held here on the third of March, a pattern being a local pilgrimage gathering, typically involving circuits of a sacred site, prayers, and sometimes offerings, held on the feast day of the saint to whom the well was dedicated. The third of March is the feast day of Saint Gobnait. Whether the pattern continued into the nineteenth century or was already fading by then is not recorded, but the OSL reference suggests it was noted in the Ordnance Survey Letters, the remarkable mid-nineteenth-century fieldwork in which antiquaries travelled parish by parish documenting local knowledge before it disappeared.