Toberros, a short distance north of a church in Fahy, County Galway, sits on the north bank of a stream, and for at least two centuries it was marked on maps and known to the local community as a place where delicate children were brought to be dipped in its waters. That practice, common around holy wells across Ireland, combined folk medicine with devotional custom, the water understood to carry some healing or protective virtue. The well gave its name to this small place, and the name held. What the water itself looked like, or whether it was ever enclosed or marked in any formal way, is harder to say.

The name Toberros appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, and again on the 1945 revision, which suggests the site retained enough local significance to be recorded across more than a century of mapping. A nineteenth-century account collected as part of the Ordnance Survey Letters, later published by O'Flanagan in 1927, noted that bushes grew over the well and that it was used for dipping children who were considered frail or unwell. That detail, incidental as it sounds, is now among the only surviving descriptions of the place. When the site was inspected in more recent times, no visible trace of the well remained above ground. The stream beside it had been deepened as part of a land-drainage scheme, and the spoil from that work was dumped along the banks, almost certainly burying whatever remained of the well beneath it.