On a gentle north-west-facing slope at Faithlegg in County Waterford, a holy well once known as Tobershonack has been quietly erased from the landscape, replaced at some point by a pump-house. It is the kind of substitution that happened across rural Ireland when practical infrastructure overtook older, less legible forms of local significance, and the result here is that a site with a recorded name and a saint's association now leaves almost no physical trace of what it once was.

The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks the spot as Tobershonack, a placename that likely preserves a Gaelicised form pointing to the well's dedication. Locally, it is remembered as St. Ita's well. Ita of Killeedy, a sixth-century saint from the Déise people of Waterford, was one of the most venerated figures in early Irish Christianity, sometimes called the foster-mother of the saints of Ireland, and dedications to her are found across Munster. Holy wells in the Irish tradition functioned as sites of pattern days, healing rituals, and communal prayer, often maintaining continuous use from early medieval times well into the modern period. Whether this particular well retained any active devotional life before its replacement is not recorded, but the survival of the local name into the 1980s at least suggests the memory held on longer than the well itself.