This is the kind of place that the agricultural landscape has a habit of consuming: a site that carried genuine religious significance for local people, reduced over time to a functional piece of drainage infrastructure sitting beside a field fence.

Holy wells were, for centuries, focal points of Irish popular devotion, associated with patron saints, pattern days, and the curing of ailments. This particular well appears under the name "Tobermolt" on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1838 and 1929, and the 1838 OS Letters record that it was formerly used as a holy well. The slight spelling shift between that earlier form and the current "Tobernamolt" is the kind of small cartographic drift that accumulates across generations of map-making. By the time the twentieth century was underway, whatever ritual life the well once had appears to have faded, and the spring itself was eventually enclosed and channelled into the surrounding drainage system.