It is overgrown and disused, and by any outward measure it looks like exactly the kind of thing you would pass without noticing. What gives it a certain quiet interest is the name it carries: Toberernan, derived from the Irish tobar, meaning well, with the second element most likely referencing a personal name or local saint. That combination of components is common enough in Irish placenames associated with holy wells, sites traditionally marked by patterns, offerings, and cures. This one, however, appears to carry none of that freight.

The well has been recorded under the name Toberernan on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from at least 1839, where it appears in italic lettering, and again on the 1925 edition, this time in gothic script. The shift in lettering style between editions reflects the OS convention of the period for distinguishing between different categories of named feature, though the name itself remained consistent across nearly a century of mapping. Despite the name suggesting a connection to a holy well tradition, there is no evidence that Toberernan was ever a site of veneration. No pattern days, no votive deposits, no recorded cures; just a stone-lined circle on a south-facing slope, given a name that hints at something it does not appear to have been.