School: Killomoran (roll number 15147)
- Location:
- Killomoran, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Delia Mc Kague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0261
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- (continued from previous page)said and you were lifted up off the table and the bone supposed to be put in its right place.
St Coleman/s Well in Gortnakella south-west of Kilmacduagh is visited on two Mondays and one Thursday or two Thursdays and one Monday and rounds performed as a cure for sore eyes. People also sleep at the well and have a blessed candle lighting while there. If they fail to sleep they are not to be cured there. There is a fish in the well if he dashed across the bottom of the well when you are looking in, it is looked upon as a sign of a cure.
