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School: Pollréamoinn (Buachaillí)

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Pollremon, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Duibhghiolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 177

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  1. Holy Wells (continued)

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    They go around it on their knees and they say a few "hail Mary's" every time they go around it. It is very sweet water to drink. When the people are leaving it they leave a red rag on a bush which grows near it. The stations the people do around it is like the stations they do at the Beaugh well.
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  2. Local Monuments

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    Local Monuments.18th May 1938.
    In the village of Kildaree Williamstown, Co. Galway, there is a graveyard and it is supposed that two kings were buried in it and that there is a big stone over them.Before it was put over them they had a fight near it and when one cut the head off the other it fell on the stone and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Lyons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kildaree, Co. Galway