Well in Onchan traditionally said to rise and fall with the tide.

W. Walter Gill grouped Ballig Well with a small number of Manx wells whose water was believed to fluctuate with the sea. He compared it with Chibber Hidee in the courtyard of Castle Rushen, the name of which he translated as the Tide Well.

Gill noted that Chibber Hidee lay sufficiently close to Castletown harbour for tidal movement to have a plausible natural explanation, but Ballig Well was treated in tradition as belonging to the same class of wells.

He made the same comparison with Chibber Valthane near Bradda Mooar. That well lay almost half a mile from the sea, yet its water was supposed to be taken at the ebb of the tide. Gill therefore listed Ballig Well, Chibber Hidee and Chibber Valthane together among wells whose behaviour or ritual use was associated with the state of the tide.

The present evidence pack preserves no fuller account of Ballig Well itself, and the surviving references are from Gill’s later compilation of Manx well-lore.