School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)brin and trout are caught in it.
- There is a holy well in Ards. There is a cure in the water. Long ago when people used to go to America, they would take a bottle of the water with them to cure the fever Ague. The fever Ague was a shivering the people would take when the would America. Tobar na Gcoill is the name of the place where the well is. Doon well is a holy well in Termon. Lots of people were cure at that well. Crippled people used to come with crutches to the well and walk home without them, cured. It is the custom always to leave something behind you at the well, some leave a hanky, others leave little things belonging to themselves. People take the water home with them from Doon Well.
- There is a holy well in Massinass(continues on next page)
