1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lios Mór

School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lios Mór

Location:
Lismore, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
An tSr M. Cárthach
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 23

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 23

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lios Mór
  2. XML Page 23
  3. XML “Our Holy Wells”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Our Holy Wells

    Share Share Post
    There are three holy wells in this district St. Carthage's Well, Glory's Well and St. Colman's Well.
    St. Carthages Well is situated a little distance from the town in the plantation which was once a grave-yard.
    Glory's Well is in ''scairbheac''.
    St Colman's well is in a field in a small village called ''Carrig Na Gabhar''.

    People visit St. Carthages Wells on the fourteenth of May and they get water from the well.
    All the people in the family take three mouthfulls each of the water and bless themselves.
    On Easter Sunday St Colman's well is visited and the water is also taken from that field.
    Old rags, cord, flowers or something must be left by the people that visit the well on a bush that is near the well as a sign that the well
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Scanlan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismore, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mr. J Scanlan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lismore, Co. Waterford