This place is absolutely neglected! Until a few months ago it was very well looked after, with flower beds and regularly cut grass. Now it appears merely like a stone wall to the side of an old local road, overgrown and forsaken.
A stone square enclosure surrounds a pool of green and murky water. A lintelled passage is provided in the south side of this enclosure. The north (0°) side of the enclosure is higher in the central segment, and in this wall, facing the water, is a niche with a statue of St. Columbcille in it. The figure wears a mantle and a crown, is about 1 metre tall and was carved out of a block of a particular limestone called oolite.
The holy well was part of a pilgrimage route for locals, and a pattern was held here on June 9th every year.
Near this well once was a cell depending on the nunnery of St. Brigid of Odder, or Othir, a parish in the barony of Skreen.
It was pouring rain when we arrived at the well.
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