Our Holy Wells

CBÉS 1026

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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Forts

CBÉS 1026

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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Local Poets

CBÉS 1026

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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Story

“There was a man named Scanlon, a water keeper on the eel weirs at Cliffe, Ballyshannon.”

CBÉS 1026

Mrs Kelly

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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Loughill National School

CBÉS 1026

Mr D Connelly

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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The First Cart

CBÉS 1026

Mr Early

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“Tom Moohan, a native of Ballyshannon, was going home one night along the Belleek Road.”

CBÉS 1026

Mrs F. Miller

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“Near Ballyshannon there is a group of rocks. Long ago a priest was hanged there.”

CBÉS 1027

Mr James Gallagher, Paddy Gallagher

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“There is a holy well near Ballyshannon called Saint Patrick's well. Once when St. Patrick was preaching there, some women came to get their children blessed. Some of the people told the children to go home.”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Mc Keown, Paddy Gallagher

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“About a mile outside Ballyshannon there are the ruins of an old church. It was built about three hundred years ago. It was called Domhnach Mór which means the big Sunday.”

CBÉS 1027

Danny Breslin, Mr P. Laughlin

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“When the Partholonians came to Ireland they landed at Ballyshannon and settled down in that district. Their prince's name was Partholon.”

CBÉS 1027

Danny Breslin, Mr P. Loughlin

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“Lough Melvin is about five miles to the south of Ballyshannon. About a hundred years ago a woman was going for water to the lake. She was very long away and the man of the house went out to look for her.”

CBÉS 1027

Danny Breslin, Mr P. Laughlin

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“In Catesby there is a cave and it is said that if anyone goes into it he will never come out again. It is said Cromwell imprisoned a priest and a boy there...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“Once there were visitors at the cave in Catsby. They had a little dog with them. It ran up the cave, and returned with a bundle in its mouth...”

CBÉS 1027

Mary Kane, Thomas Cleary

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“About half a mile from Ballyshannon stand the ruins of the old monastery (Abbey Assaroe). It was wrecked in Cromwell's time and the bells of the monastery were thrown into the river nearby...”

CBÉS 1027

Mary Kane, Thomas Cleary

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“It is said that long ago the monks buried the bell of the monastery in the little stream that runs by the graveyard. When the sun shines it casts the shadow of the monastery (at twelve o'clock) where the bell is supposed to be hidden...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs J. Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“About two miles from Ballyshannon there is a big stone called "the two mile stone". It is said that Finn Mc Cumhall threw it from a mountain seven miles away...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“St Barron was the first Saint to live in the district. He had no place to build a church and he went to the king and asked him for some land on which to build a church...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Cleary, Thomas Cleary

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“Some years ago there lived in Ballyshannon a local poet called Francy Daly. He was great friends with William Allingham...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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“There are two flax mills in the Abbey. In olden times these were owned and worked by the Mc Keown and Mc Nulty families...”

CBÉS 1027

Michael Gavigan, Mr James Gavigan

Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

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