The water from the well beside it will not boil. These are two of the so-called Seven Wonders of Fore, a cluster of local marvels long associated with this quietly extraordinary corner of County Westmeath. The well itself answers to the name Tobernacogany, a name already fixed in place by the time the Ordnance Survey mapped it at six-inch scale in 1837.

The site carries the layered quality common to Irish holy wells, where pre-Christian custom and Christian observance became difficult to untangle over centuries. In the nineteenth century, stations, meaning formal rounds of prayer performed at fixed points, were observed here on four dates in the year: the twentieth of January, St. Feichin's own feast day; the twenty-fourth of June, St. John's Day; and the twenty-ninth of June, St. Peter's Day. The patron saint Feichin, associated closely with the monastic settlement at Fore, gives the first of these dates its local weight. Visitors would insert a coin edgeways into the bark of the three-branched ash tree growing over the well, a small votive gesture that left the tree visibly marked over time. Beside the well, a holed stone of conglomerate lies deeply buried in the ground, its original purpose unclear but its presence suggesting a longer ritual history at the spot. The well water was drawn on as a cure for headache and toothache by people in the surrounding area.