School: Liatra (roll number 13341)
- Location:
- Lettera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Mac Sheoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0013, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)none remain. The last Sunday of the three, each person ties a red ribbon on the tree by the well and long before the summer is over, the tree is well decorates in red.
St.Patrick's Well is dedicated to St.Patrick. It is said that he prayed at this well long ago and the track of his knee is left on one of the stones by the well. The station is much the same as the station at the Blessed Well. About twenty years ago a holy girl named May Finnegan who loved near, is supposed to to have seen the B.Virgin while Mass was going on one Sunday.
Written by:- Annie Morgan,
Croaghill, Williamstown, Co. Galway.
Told about "Blessed Well" by:-Mrs. Delaney, (65)
Farmer's wife) Beagh, Currough W.
Dunmore, Co. Galway.
Told about "St.Patrick's Well" bu:- Mrs.Morgan (58)
(Farmer' wife) Croaghill, Williamstown.
- Collector
- Annie Morgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghill, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Beagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Morgan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Croaghill, Co. Galway
