School: Glasthule (St Joseph's Boys)

Location:
Glasthule, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
P. Ó Cuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 164

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 164

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  1. There is an old well in Dalkey named Our Lady's Well. This well is more than one hundred years of age and used to be a passage from one convent to another. The two convents are still there, but the passage fell-in about twenty years ago, and was not used since. A lane was made from the road which passes one of the convents and one must pass this convent before reaching the passage or lane which leads to the well.
    I went down to the well myself and I saw that it was like the mouth of a cave, and went in. I went down more
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Glasthule, Co. Dublin
    Collector
    Feardorcha Austin
    Gender
    Male