School: Shallee, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 6245)
- Location:
- Shallee (Coughlan), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chonchubhair
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- (continued from previous page)came home cured but the gentleman was blind.
Another story is also told about it. A man went fishing in the well. He saw a fish in the well and killed it. He took it home and gave it to the cook to
cook it. The cook cleaned the fish and made three parts of it.
When she was cooking it on the pan it jumped off the pan and appeared the same way as when it was in the water. The frightened man put it in to a bucket of water and took it back to the well and it is believed it was the saint of the well who was appearing in the shape of a fish.
The name of the Saint of the well is St Comneth - There is another holy well outside Nenagh town in the townland of Brookwatson. It is called St. Johns well and the people go there on the twenty-fourth of June.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughboy, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Kennedy
- Gender
- Female