The 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a holy well here under the name Toberbride, a anglicisation of Tobar Bríde, meaning the well of Brigid. By the time the revised edition was published in 1919, the cartographers had added a single qualifying word: the location is marked not as Toberbride but as Toberbride (Site of). Something had already been lost, or forgotten, or simply swallowed by the land in the intervening decades.

Holy wells dedicated to Saint Brigid were once among the most common sacred sites in the Irish landscape, typically serving as focal points for local devotion, pattern days, and the leaving of small offerings. The name Kilbride, which belongs to the wider townland here, reflects the same dedication, deriving from Cill Bríde, the church of Brigid. Whether the well was ever associated with a formal structure or simply existed as a natural spring held in local regard is not recorded. What the map sequence does suggest is that within roughly eighty years, a site considered significant enough to name and plot had ceased to be legible on the ground at all.

Today there is no visible trace of the well. The pasture gives nothing away.