The well at Baile Eaglaise on the Dingle Peninsula comes without any of that. Known as Tobar na bhFaithních, a name that translates roughly as the Well of the Warts, it sits in poor, marshy ground on the eastern bank of a stream, screened from view by dense vegetation. Its water was understood locally to have curative powers, yet whether it was ever regarded as holy in the formal devotional sense remains genuinely uncertain.

That ambiguity is itself unusual. Across Ireland, springs and wells were frequently absorbed into Christian practice, acquiring dedications to saints and calendrical rituals that layered religious meaning over much older beliefs about healing water. Tobar na bhFaithních seems to have slipped through that process, or at least to have left no clear record of it. The scholar and folklorist known as An Seabhac, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, noted the site in 1939, recording the curative reputation of the water without being able to confirm any sacred status. The well sits in the townland of Baile Eaglaise, a place-name meaning something close to Church Town, which at least hints at a broader landscape of religious significance even if the well itself remains on the margins of it.