School: Kilmoyly (C.) (roll number 2811)

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1. Wether's Well (continued)

   

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   it to his own place at Killeen (Oakpark) near Tralee. These men succeeded in getting in the stone into the cart and were bringing it away rejoicing on the high road by Dun dra radharc until they reached the place now called Bullock hill when all at once the cart and bullock broke down and could not be moved another inch further by all powers of Cromwellian bigot. The stone remained there until the Catholic people gathered together and bore it back again and set it up once more beside the well where it remains while the bigot tyrant tried to remove and desecrate it, though a grantee of large in Kerry not a vestage of his Keith of Kain is to be found in old Killeen near Oakpark for many a day. The well supplies a large stream or river now called Thyse river which flows on through Ardfert beside the cathedral grounds to the sea and on to the bunk the Franciscans founded their home at Ardfert in (1252) The river was called the "Gabhra" and must have been much bigger than it is at present for it is told in local tradition that it was in one of those rivers (fifty in number the Latin life) being fishes where blessed

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilmoyly, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Patrick Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilmoyly, Co. Kerry