School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 135
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- The water in St. Ciarans well is not used in the house for cooking or anything else except for cures. A long time ago when Charletons lived in this place, one of them took some water out of St. Ciaran's well and put it in a saucepan on the fire to boil. He kept it over a big fire for an hour and a half but it would not boil. Then he took the saucepan off the fire and said "There must be a devil in this water" and he threw it outside the door. When both the saucepan and the water disappeared. So he did not chance boiling the water since. Annie M. O Connor. Told by her aunt Brigid O' Connor. 78
- Collector
- Annie M. O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Brigid O' Connor
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
