School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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- (continued from previous page)Fuair Pádraig Ó Goillidhe an sgéal seo ó a athair darbh ainm Pádraig Ó Ghoillidhe go raibh comhnuidhe air i gCeatramhan Tobar agus a fuair bás 60 blian ó shoin.
Where I live in the parish of Williamstown formerly known as Templetogher there are two Holy Wells. One to the south wast of Williamstown and the other to the north west in the district known as Pullea.
People visit the Holy Well in Templetogher every summer on three successive Friday, or three successive Sundays, or on two Fridays and a Sunday in succession. Stations are made by the parishioners and also crowds come from other parishes here.
Prayers are said in three different places. They first begin at the big well that is situated to the north end of the field and which has a little wall on three sides, and they say a certain number of prayers, and then they follow a recognized path, and they come back to the well and then they pray on the way and they do this for five times.
Then they go to a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Ghoillidhe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Padraigh Ó Ghoillidhe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway
