School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 276
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Uachtar Árd
- XML Page 276
- XML “Toibreacha Beannaithe”
- XML “Luibheanna”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Ireland could not stir the stone and it is to be seen standing on the brink of the well yet.
Captain O Flantley brought some water from Saint Cummins well for his breakfast but he could not even boil the water.
There was another atheist living in Leam and he told his house keeper to get some water from Saint Una's well to boil the meat for his dinner. When he was getting hungry he sent one of his men to see about the dinner. The housekeeper said that the meat was bleeding still. They had to throw out the meat and to get something else for his dinner.
There is a big ash tree over Saint Una's well and there are bushes over Saint Michael's, Saint Cuthbert's and Saint Cummins well.
- Some of herbs are nettles, briars, thistles, Dog leaves, seamsog, fearaban and Glusineac Dearg.
Fearbán, thistles, dog leaves and glusineac dearg do most harm to the land. Clover grows in(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Joyce
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
