School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)
- Location:
- Ballynacally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cuinneagáin
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- XML “Saint Senan's Well Deer Island”
- XML “Saint Senan's Well Low Island”
- XML “Our Lady's Well Lack-na-Shannagh”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Low Island is a fair sized Island at the junction of the Fergus and Shannon, about three and a half miles from the village of Kildysart near the Clare Coast. In a field in this Island there is a blessed well dedicated to Saint Senan.
- There is a blessed well in Lack-na-Shannagh dedicated to Our Lady. The rounds to be performed are - kneel down and say five rounss of your beads and make the sign of the cross five times on yourself, and then say five more rounds of your beads. It is said that a blind woman went there one day, and she did the "rounds" with great faith and when she went home she had her sight. People go to this well on every fifteenth of August.
