School: An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: William Meiklejohn
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- There is a well up in Ardmore near where I am living at present. It used to be a holy well and people used to go there every year to make rounds. A black-thorn bush used to grow over the well and rosary-beads and other holy things used to be hanging on the bush. In the house where I am living now three Cullinane boys lived there once. One day one of them went down to the well and cut down the bush and he died in a few days after. The briars are now growing around the well and the water is now flowing into a tank.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cocláin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Caughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardmore, Co. Cork
