School: Ballinakill (B.) (roll number 895)
- Location:
- Ballinakill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: William Hande
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)There is a well named Ladywell about a mile from Ballinakill but it is situated in County Kilkenny.People say that a trout with one eye was seen in it. People visit the well on the fifteenth of August and say the Rosary going around it on their knees. There was a girl from Nenah cured in it, she did not walk for a couple of years, and when she came back from the well she was able to open the door and walk in.The well was repaired last year, there is cement about a yard out, all around it. There is also a big stone cross in it, and steps down to it.On the fifteenth of August a big green, white, and gold flag is hung in the tree. Mr Delahunty owns the field that the well is in, he lives in Abbeyleix.
- Collector
- James Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinakill, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Fitzpatrick
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinakill, Co. Laois
