School: Cill Fhearga (roll number 15128)
- Location:
- Killarga, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 303
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- (continued from previous page)Beside the Holy Well there is a birch tree and a white thorn bush growing. It was a priest named Father Joe Meehan that planted them, when the well was consecrated. He was born in Manor, Hamilton, and was a curate for a time in the parish of Killargue. He is dead now.
People drink the water in the well, and when a person has sore feet he washes the affected part in the stream. Once upon a time there was a man named Patrick McGoldrick of Cloonaquin who was blind, and one day he went to the Holy Well. He said prayers at it, and after a few months the man had his eyesight as good as ever. Toothache, Rheumatism, and many other diseases may be cured there.
There were several people cured at this Holy Well a few years ago, but some of them are dead now. There were people cured of deafness, of blindness, and of diseases on the arms and feet.
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim
