School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 105
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- (continued from previous page)the well was dedicated to Saint Michael. I do not know any person who ever took water from the well but I heard an old man saying that a woman once took water from it and that it would not boil for her.
Near this blessed well is a statue of Saint Michael enclosed in a case made of cement and glass. This statue was erected by Mrs. Dan Quilter, Gortinare, Lisnaw. This woman was cured of a bad form of nervousness. She could not go out or work around the farm, thinking that something would happen to her. One evening, as she was looking out the back-door of her house, she saw a bird of uncommon shape leave the field and alight on a tree near the well.
Just then the thought struck her that she would pay a visit to the well and do rounds at it. Soon after she visited the well and paid the usual rounds at it. Before a week was finished she was cured of her disease and she was able to do her work around(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Shanahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irrabeg, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Lawlor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irrabeg, Co. Kerry
