The name itself is worth pausing over. In Irish, tobar means well, and the remainder of the name likely encodes a personal name or local epithet that has softened and shifted over centuries of spoken use, as so many well names in the west of Ireland have. Holy wells of this kind are among the oldest continuously venerated sites in the Irish landscape, pre-Christian in origin yet absorbed wholesale into local Catholic practice, typically associated with a patron saint, a pattern day, and rituals involving water, rags tied to nearby branches, or circuits walked in a prescribed direction known as a turas.

Kilgeever itself has long associations with pilgrimage. The parish sits at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the mountain that draws tens of thousands of walkers each July for the annual climb to its summit oratory, and the broader area is dense with early medieval ecclesiastical remains. A holy well in this landscape would fit a familiar pattern: a local focus of devotion, possibly linked to a named saint, drawing people on a specific feast day for prayers and the taking of water believed to carry curative properties. The precise history of Toberreendoney, its patron, its pattern day, and whatever physical fabric surrounds it today, remains to be fully documented.