School: Beárna Dhearg (B) (roll number 14633)
- Location:
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Flaithrí Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0198
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- There is a loisín a few yards from my house. It is in Imanele. There is a lot of young babies buried in it? There are two big bushes over these little graves. There is an old hare in this loisín and all the dogs and hounds couldn't catch it and its there yet. There is a holy well there also once. One day soldiers were passing by this well, they took off their stockings and shoes and washed their feet in the well. One of the soldiers let down his trousers and let all he had into the well.
And all the "Kings" horses
And all the King's men
wouldn't put his intestines
out of the well again?
The well dried up altogether they say the well changed to [??].
- Collector
- Eddie Devane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Omaun Beg, Co. Galway
