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School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)

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Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1091, Page 126

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  1. Toibreacha Beannaithe

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    There are two hold wells in this Parish their names are as follows
    Tobar Wodach
    Bailure Well
    Tobar Wodah is in the town-land of Doaghmore and it is in a farm belonging to John Friel.
    People visit the Doaghmore well on good Friday in the early morning.
    When people are going visiting the well they always wash their feet in a pool near to the well.
    People drink the water that is in the well and they take some home.
    People leave different things behind them [.] Some leave cloth and other leave pennies and so on.
    They leave the cloth on the bushes beside the well and they leave the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Carr
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glinsk, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Annie Carr
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    52
    Address
    Glinsk, Co. Donegal