Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Blessed Wells

   

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   There are two blessed wells in Tomhaggard, St. James's and St. Annes. St. James' well cures all kinds of pains, and St. Annes was supposed to cure nearly any kind of a complaint. The feast of St James is celebrated on the twenty fifth of July, and St. Annes on the twenty-sixth.
   The water used to be sold out of St James well on the great day, the twenty fifth. An old woman would sit at the well, and sell a tumbler of water for a penny, and anyone who wanted would buy the water would have a year's health.
   St. Patrick's well is at Kilmore Quay. It is in a rock, and everytime the tide comes in, it goes into the well. When the tide goes out again

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   Date

   6 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tomás de Buitléir