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   Below Mike Frains Land grows a lot of sloe bushes and the little hill id called Cnocan an Airne on the slop of the little hill was a very small house with sloe all around it. It was used for drying flac formerly and was called the Pucas house. a little below this in the next holding in Regan's land was an old spring well which is now dry. It is said that a woman in the downland went to this well soon after her baby was born before she was churched and when she took the water the well dried up.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Griffin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Killaclare, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Frain

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   86

   Address

   Kilcashel, Co. Mayo