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1. Blessed Wells (continued)

   

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   saying it was a very unlucky thing to do to take anything away from a blessed well escept water. So she brought back the rose and left it where she got it. When she was coming back from the well the pain left her, and in a few minutes was as well as ever.
   There is another well in Ballinaslany, St. David is the patron St. It is a famous well for curing almost everything, sore eyes, head-aches, tooth-aches and pains of all kinds. It also cured cripples. My father and mother went over to see the well a few years ago and they saw an old man with a crutch and a walking kneeling clown beside the well and he praying. It was not long until he got up and was perfectly cured and he left

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script