School: Rathmorrel (roll number 10545)
- Location:
- Rathmorrel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anraoí Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 019
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- A woman named Mrs Gentleman went to Tobar na Súl Glendahalin Ballyheigue, Tralee for a bucket of water and she put it on the fire to boil. It was down a long time and it never got hot. She looked into the pot and she saw a trout swimming about inside, so she took it up and carried it back to the well again.
- This is how the well came to be known. A little holy girl lived next the place, in a lonely house on the side of a mountain. With her in this house were two maids, who were very holy also. One evening as she and her maids were praying in the chapel a stranger came in and told her, that there were men on horseback coming across the mountain to steal her. When she heard this, she said they they may fall(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerald Lawlor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Caherulla, Co. Kerry
