School: Screen (roll number 9679)
- Location:
- Screen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 207
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- Townlands.Kilcorral : Quadrangular Fort.
Ballylucas : St. Nicholas' Well.
This well was blessed by St. Nicholas himself.
It is impossible to boil water taken from the well. In olden times sick people went there and taking the water, made the Sign of the Cross three times. Many of them were cured.
Ballymore:
Screen Grave-yard and Quadrangular Fort.
Tradition says that there was a shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary here, and that after the Norman Invasion, it was plundered by a Norman Knight, who fell into a near-by lake and was drowned. This lake, which is situated about 3/4 mile from Screen village, is known as Loch na Piasra and got its name from the crest on the(continues on next page)
