School: Kilskeer (B.) (roll number 1421)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Máirtín Ó Loingsigh R. Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 229
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- There is a very remarkable place called Keiran in Carnaross. Every year on the first Sunday in Harvest, a great crowd go there to her all sorts of diseases cured.
On the night before the first Sunday in Harvest, three fishes are to be seen in a well called Keiran well. It is said "That one time a man caught a fish and put them on the pan to fry but they were not long on it until they jumped off and then the women left them back in the well and ever since the mark is to be seen on the fishes sides still".
There is football matches held every year on that day, also.
