School: St Eunan's
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Br. Aindrias Ó hIarfhlatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1082, Page 70
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- (continued from previous page)blessed the well, and the same also for your intention. People take off their shoes and walk round the well while praying, and they take a bottle of the water home with them. There were wonderful cures there, cripples have been cured on many occasions.
- There are many holy wells in the diocese of Raphoe. One of them is Conwall well. There is another beside Leck Cemetry. This is known as the "Wart-Well". There is an old story how Mr. Adam Baird which was the name of the farmer, on whose land the Wart well was at first. The well is just a large stone with a hole hollowed in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Doherty
- Gender
- Male
