School: Moyrhee, Ruan
- Location:
- Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Laoise de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 298
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- Tobar na Déirce. This well is supposed to cure sore eyes and it is in a field near Blakemount (near Tubber) graveyard and there are ash trees growing around it. When people go to the well they go two Mondays and a Thursday and they wash their eyes three times with three drops of the water and they say three Hail Marys. It is said that a man had a disease in his head long ago and he got a bucket of water and threw it on his head and the well sprung up there
There is a wall around the well and when people are going to it they bring a small statue or a crucifix and leave it up against the wall
- There is a blessed well in Ranahan. It is situated in a little crag, and you would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Considine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
