Tucked into the east-facing slope of a small stream gorge in County Kilkenny, this modest spring well carries the name Toberpatrick, "tobar" being the Irish word for well, and the Patrick in question being, presumably, the patron saint of Ireland himself. Yet no tradition of devotion to St. Patrick survives here. The prayers, the pattern days, the rounds that would once have marked such a site as sacred ground have all dissolved, leaving only the name behind.

The well appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, already bearing its Patrician dedication, and the name was retained when the map was revised in 1900. That continuity suggests the association was once recognised and considered worth recording, even if the living practice had faded by then or since. The well itself is a small, stone-lined spring, its stonework built into the natural slope of the gorge and rising above it, opening to the south. A wooden slated roof supported on two timber posts, put up by the owner of the adjoining private garden, now shelters it. The land rises in all directions around the site, and the setting is enclosed and quiet rather than expansive, the kind of place that feels overlooked rather than remote.