Toberbreedia, sitting on a hillock in Finnor More in County Clare, has none of that. It is a well with a name, a careful structure, and no memory of anyone ever praying at it.

The well is a tober, the Irish word for a spring or water source, and it has been given the additional name Breedia, though what that name commemorates is no longer clear. What survives is a circular shaft, just under a metre across and dropping about one and a half metres to the water, lined with a masonry wall and fitted with four stone steps descending toward the east-northeast. That kind of functional construction, steps cut into the side of a well so someone could reach the water level directly, suggests it was regularly used and carefully maintained. The well sits within the eastern edge of a walled burial ground, which is itself enclosed within a wider enclosure, a layering of boundaries that points to a site of some local significance across a long period. And yet despite that accumulated archaeology, there is no recorded tradition of veneration at this well, no local knowledge of it being visited for cures or blessings, no saint's name attached to it.