School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 169
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- About sixty or seventy years ago there lived a man in Ballysokeery called Mr Perkin’s who had a well in his land. One summer all the wells for miles around dried but Mr Perkin’s well did not dry. So the people came to his well. When he saw that the people were coming to his well, he covered it and made a French drain from it. After he did that his [?] died, his wife, and daughters died, and he died himself in the workhouse. It is thought that all that suffering came from the covering of the well.
- Collector
- John T. Naughton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Naughton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Mayo
