School: Ballyporeen (roll number 15134)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Póirín, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: L. Ó Conchubhair
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“There is a well in the field of a Lonergan man in Ballyskeehan.”
(continued from previous page)them fighting and he ran out and tried to make peace. They killed the peacemaker and where he fell a well sprang up. There is a well there since.- It is still the old custom in some homes that people make a cross of rushes in honour of St Brigid, and put it on the ceiling of the kitchen on St Brigids eve. A Brath Brighde, as the old people called it, was hung on the door. It is known to cure several diseases.
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“About thirty four years ago a strange miracle was wrought in the district of Mitchelstown.”
About thirty four years ago a strange miracle was wrought in the district of Mitchelstown. A holy well named Saint Fanahans well which was situated in Bergown shifted as a Protestant lady washed her dog in it. One morning about six weeks after a nearby farmer went out to look at his cattle at four o'clock. He heard a terrible noise and looking towards the sky he saw large thing like a sheet. He got afraid and took off his hat and blessed himself. Immediately the object dropped beside him. It turned into a little well and is still there and people pray there once a year on a certain date.- Collector
- Séamus de Bhál
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lios Fuinseann, Co. Thiobraid Árann