School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- There is a holy well near Ballygar and people go there on the fifteenth of October each year. They would go around the well fifteen times and then on their knees. They would have fifteen pieces of rushes and then throw one away for each round. There was an old woman sitting there once and she had charge of the well. The people would give her a few coppers and she would give them a drink of the water out of a cup. I drank the water there myself.
- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
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“Haw year bréag year...”
"Haw year bréagh year, Sloe year woe year"- (continued from previous page)x side. Then bring back the fox to the sheeve of oats, then go back again for the goose and the three of them are on the one side then. That is the way it is done.