School: Trinity (roll number 2311)
- Location:
- Tincurra, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs Dereveux
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 152
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Trinity
- XML Page 152
- XML “The Holy Well”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There is a holy well in Trinity a short distance from the grave-yard. It is situated on a little hill and is lined with stones inside.
It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A "pattern" is held in the grave-yard twice a yearThe water of this well, if taken cures sore throats. The water also cures warts, sores burns and warts and has a special cure for delicate childrenThere are leaves growing in the well which will cure too if rubbed on affected partsThe people of the district have faith in the well and clean it every yearThe water of the well will not boil A story is told of a Protestant lady who came to picnic near the well and got the water from the well to boil to make the tea. She was told it would not boil but boasted that she would MAKE it boil
She tried and tried but she could not Succeed + was forced to admit that the water would not boil
