Tobernamona, in the townland of Moyleen in County Galway, takes its first element from the Irish tobar, meaning a well, most likely a holy well of the kind that once formed the quiet centre of local devotion across the Irish countryside. Holy wells were rarely grand affairs; a natural spring, perhaps edged with stone, gathering offerings of cloth or coin, visited on a patron saint's feast day by people who travelled on foot from surrounding parishes. The second element, na mona, suggests an association with bogland, placing this particular well in a landscape of turf and water that is thoroughly familiar to the west of Ireland.