What was once a marshy hollow in a field in Killelton, Co. Kerry, where water gathered into a pool and people came seeking cures, has been covered over entirely by the landowner. The place still carries its name on Ordnance Survey maps going back to the 1841-42 survey and again on the 1914 edition, recorded as Toberelton, an anglicisation of the Irish Tobar Eiltín, meaning St Elton's Well. But the physical trace of it is gone.

The well belongs to a widespread tradition of holy wells across Ireland, sites typically associated with a local or regional saint and visited for their supposed healing properties. Pilgrims would perform rounds, a ritual circuit of the well often accompanied by prayer and the leaving of offerings, in hope of a cure for particular ailments. At Toberelton, the landowner, a Mr Keane, recalls people travelling to the well with exactly this in mind. The water has since been piped for domestic use, a practical conversion that quietly closed off whatever remained of that older function. The saint's name, Elton, is unusual and relatively obscure, and the well's obscurity seems to have deepened alongside it.