School: Maigh Ard
- Location:
- Moyard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhshlain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0006, Page 116
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- Once upon a time there lived a man in Cleggan whose name was St Cannack. He led a holy life, he used to go out in the fields at night praying. He only ate one meal a day. One day he was praying out in a field and a man named Tom Mullan cut his head off with a spade. He at once took up his head in his hands and went to a blessed well and washed it. When he had it washed he put it on again and laid down and died. Since then the well is called St Cannack's well.
- Collector
- Francis King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crocknaraw, Co. Galway
