You could try to find a water diviner, or you could even have a go yourself.
I have no idea how it works, but it seems to do the trick. I tested it myself and then asked my father, who was visiting and didn't know anything about the water, to walk the same course and try it and it reacted at the same places.
All you need are 2 old wire coat hangers, or some wire of similar thickness, and some wire cutters. You want to have 2 right-angled pieces of wire, each with one arm longer than the other, bottom of the coat hanger length.
You hold the short arms slightly ahead of you, with your own arms bent, one in each hand, gently, so they are free to move, with the long arms pointing straight ahead.
Then you walk slowly about, where you are trying to find the water. If you do cross running water, then the two long arms move of their own accord towards each other and cross. It is the weirdest feeling when you are quite sure that you didn't deliberately do anything to make it happen!
Having located the water, you can then try to follow its course, without having to resort to digging (!) and try to make sense of what is happening underground.
As far as your house goes, there is no guarantee that you will get the answer you want, and you would have to trust the rods were right, as you wouldn't be able to do an investigative dig before buying. Also, if you have read all of this thread, you know that it might all be different next year! It is challenging and sometimes annoying, but as I said in an earlier post, it does make you aware of the interconnectedness of everything.
Perhaps @annej meant "RE-locate" the pond, @Buttercupdays? I should have thought that ought to be possible, if the new pond is to be lower than the old one. But if the intention is to move it up the hill from the original pond, that will depend where the water's coming from - in which case your water divining idea comes into its own...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Thank you for your ideas. The ground is relatively level in fact although possibly the smallest of declines away from the house. There is in fact a small stream just outside the end of the garden so whether there is any connection there or not I don't know. The soil is clay.
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The soil is clay.