The spring is enclosed in a square stone pool, with stepped seats around it on two sides, and the whole enclosed by a wall rising to some eight feet. It is approached by a short pathway and steps from the roadside, from where it is clearly visible.
The well was traditionally resorted to for the treatment of sick children, in particular those suffering from epilepsy and rickets. It was also claimed to cure impotence. After bathing the patient was carried to St Beuno’s chapel and laid on rushes overnight on Beuno’s tomb, a plain altar like structure that stood in the centre of the chapel before Beuno’s shrine. If they slept then the cure would be effective.
Mae'r' ffynnon wedi'u hamgylchynu mewn pwll cerrig sgwâr, ac ar ddau ochr mae yna seddau, a bob dim wedi'u hamgáu gan wall oddeutu wyth troedfedd. I gyrraedd y cache, mae' rhaid dilyn llwybr byr a grisiau o'r lôn, ac o'r man yma mae i'w weld yn glir.
Roedd y ffynnon yn wreiddiol ar gyfer plant sâl, yn enwedig rhai oedd yn dioddef o epilepsi â rickets. Honnwyd ei fod yn gallu gwella anallu. Ar ôl i'r claf cael ei olchi yn y ffynnon, roedd yn cael ei gario i Gapel St Beuno a rhoi ei orwedd dros nos ar feddrod Beuno, allor blaen a safwyd yng nghanol y capel cyn allor Beuno. Os oeddent yn gallu cysgu, roeddent yn gwella o'r afiechyd
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