- Subject
- Nature: holy wells (Munster)
- Location
- Barrigone Well, Co. Limerick
- Archival information
- Holy wells - In Munster: Barrigone well.
- Additional information
- A clear spring situated below high spring tide level in a creek of the Shannon. The water is often salty, from the tide water. A great pattern was held formerly on 14th-15th August, when large bonfires were lit and both devotions and merrymaking continued all night. Other days of devotion were the Saturdays before 1st May and 24th June. A trout lives in the well, and is seen by those whose requests are to be granted. A voice from the well reproved a woman who went to wash clothes there. A blind horse was taken, in mockery, to the well; horse cured and owner blinded. A girl going to America took pebbles from the well; during a storm she threw the pebbles into the sea; the storm ceased and the pebbles returned to the well. (Ó Danachair, The Holy Wells of Co. Limerick, 1955)
- Format
- Image
- Negative
- Film: Nitrate
- Black and white
- 60mm x 40mm
Archival Reference
The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00067
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
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