That tension between label and reality is what makes Toberedmond worth a moment's attention.

The folklorist and scholar Caoimhín Ó Danachair noted in 1955 that Toberedmond appeared on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map marked in Gothic lettering, the style cartographers of that period reserved for antiquities and sites considered to be of historical or traditional significance. Holy wells in Ireland were places of pattern days, pilgrimage, and localised veneration, often associated with a named saint and visited on a specific feast day. The Gothic script on the map would normally signal exactly that kind of site. But Ó Danachair found no supporting evidence that the well had ever functioned as a holy well in any meaningful sense. No saint's name attached to it, no recorded pattern, no tradition of cure or prayer. The name itself, Toberedmond, combines the Irish tobar, meaning well, with what appears to be a personal name, Edmund or Edmond, which might point to a landowner or local figure rather than a saint. The Gothic lettering, it seems, may have been applied too generously.

The site is in Hammondstown, a townland in County Limerick, and like many features recorded on nineteenth-century maps, the physical well may be difficult to locate on the ground today without local knowledge. Anyone with a particular interest in the cartographic history of Irish holy wells, or in the way landscape features acquired and sometimes shed religious significance over time, might find the broader area worth exploring with the 1840 map in hand, comparing what was recorded then with what remains visible now. The well itself may be modest or even entirely unmarked, but the gap between the map's confident Gothic script and the absence of any tradition behind it is, in its quiet way, the whole point.