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1. Blessed Wells (continued)

   

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   over his grave. The cross is about ten or eleven feet high, and the old people say it was five or six feet higher many years ago, but it was broken in the time of the Rebellion.
   Any person that would stand with his back to the cross and meet his hands around it would never have a pain in his back. The well that was beside the cross went dry one time and it rose up in a field a few hundred yards away from the graveyard, and it is known to this day as "cobar ban". There is also another well up in Adamstown called the "white well" and another well which is not a blessed well at all called "Fior-uisee well" pronounced "fee-rish eh"

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script