Yet that is precisely what is recorded of Tobar Bríde in the townland of Tuogh, in the barony of Owneybeg, where a holy well dedicated to Saint Brigid sits just west of a field boundary in low-lying, poorly drained pasture.

The folklorist and ethnographer Caoimhín Ó Danachair documented the site in 1955, describing it as a strong spring issuing from the rock and noting that its water was believed to cure vomiting and a sick stomach, but only if taken fasting before daybreak. That stipulation is characteristic of holy well tradition across Ireland, where the curative power of the water was understood to depend on the ritual circumstances of its consumption as much as on the water itself. More unusual is the legend Ó Danachair recorded as still circulating locally at the time: that the well had not always occupied its present position, but had moved there from the site of a bullaun stone elsewhere in the same townland. A bullaun is a large rock or boulder with one or more cup-shaped depressions worn or carved into its surface, often associated with early Christian sites and sometimes believed to hold water with healing properties of its own. The idea that a well could migrate, carrying its sanctity with it, reflects a deeper logic in how such sites were understood, as things with agency rather than merely fixed features of the landscape.

Ó Danachair photographed the site in 1954, and that image is now held by the National Folklore Collection at UCD, accessible through the Dúchas archive online. The site itself is sheltered on three sides, with open views to the west, but it has become heavily obscured by dense vegetation and does not appear to be in active devotional use any longer. Anyone seeking it out should expect rough, wet ground and considerable overgrowth; the well may be difficult to locate without careful attention to the field boundary noted in the survey record.