School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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- There is a well in Michael Collin's farm of Lisloose called Sunday's Well. In the early Penal Times there was a priest slain there and a beautiful black-thorn tree grew up where he was slain, also a well sprung up called "Sunday's Well", People pay rounds about this well during the month of September. The rounds must be performed between Cock-Crow and the N.B. dawn of the day in order get cured - its waters are reputed for curing sore eyes.When people pay rounds there, they leave something after them, such as a rag, a hair pin, or a few pence. When performing the rounds you must slowly walk around the well saying three rosaries. Long ago there was a cover for the Well and the keys of this cover are inscribed in a stone of the high wall on the right hand side of the Tralee-Abbeydorney Road opposite the well.A rich protestant by the name of Colisands of Oak Park Demesne near the well tried to get water out of this well to his big house by means of a large water pipe, but, the water would not flow any further than the east fence of the field where the well is situated in, he did this during Penal Times.
- Informant
- Thomas Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
