School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0265, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)Stations done during the day. There is a bush growing near the well and there are the ruins of a chapel to be seen. There is a story told that St Brigid paid a visit to it on her way to Kildare. The people drink the water of this well and bring home some.
Feeney's Well This well is situated in Mount Plunkett. A story is told (said) about this well, that every year an eel comes up out of the well and calls for a man named Feeney.
- Codie's Well
Another named for this well is Toban Ui Connuber, it is said to have got its name from O'Connor's sister Lady O'Connor. This Landlord lived up a piece from this well. - Informant
- Kitty Macken
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon
