Nothing about it announces itself as significant, yet the Ordnance Survey mapmakers of 1842 thought it worth naming, and they marked it again in 1916: Toberlury, from the Irish Tobar Lúraigh, meaning the well of Lúrach, a personal name associated with an early saint.

Holy wells dedicated to named saints are scattered across Ireland in their hundreds, and many were once the focus of formal devotional practice. Stations, or prescribed rounds of prayer performed by walking a set circuit around a sacred site, were observed at Toberlury until roughly a century ago, after which the tradition fell away. Local memory also places a church and graveyard in a nearby field, though no structure is visible today. That pairing, a well beside a lost ecclesiastical site, is a familiar pattern in early Irish Christianity, where water sources were frequently drawn into the orbit of small monastic communities or burial grounds. Whether Lúrach was a local figure of purely regional significance or someone whose cult once extended further is not recorded, but the well preserves the name where almost everything else has gone.