School: Clandouglas, Lic Snámha (roll number 10380)

Location:
Clondouglas, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Bean Uí Sheanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 046

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  1. Sunday's Well is in Oak Park near Tralee on the Abbeydorney side. Wether's Well is in Tubrid near Ardfert village + I wish to tell the following story, which I heard from my deceased father (R. I. P.) who is dead 19 years + was 75 when he died. From early times people paid rounds at both wells + still continue to do so. In
    Wether's Well there is a mound , an altar, + a well but in Sunday's Well there is only the well + a lone bush. When the Sandes were Landlords of Oak Park, one of them got a mason to remove the altar with its three effigies from Tubrid or Wether's Well to Oak Park + erect it over Sunday's Well. The next morning it was back again in its own place at Wether's Well + signs of the fresh mortar could be tracked as the crow flies from one well to the other a distance of about 5 miles in a direct line.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Shanahan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Fitzgerald
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aulanebane, Co. Kerry