School: Baile Mhic Ealgóid
- Location:
- Ballymacelligott, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 002
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- (1) "Finne Caol" or Caobh or Chaobh: Situated in James Blennerhassett's at Gort-a' tSléibhe. Children are cured there. There is no bottom to it. Rounds were made here up to about 1890. One should go before sunrise. If person were seen near it, the cure was frustrated. About 1880 Mrs. Lyons came here three mornings and on the 3rd morning when going away she met Wm Myles. She was not at all thankful to him though her rounds were completed and her cure finished. No special date is connected with the well. The secretiveness was perhaps an old pagan device to prevent human respect and unworthy motives in the devotees. Pat McDunn of Currens Parish tells the origin of the well. "A woman not of this world used to come washing to a house in Mágh Ghlas [where Dick McElligott now lives]. No one ever stayed up to see her washing until one night, two Spalpeens watched her. When she noticed this, she went out the south door. They followed her towards James Hassett's where Wm. Myles lived then. At the last her steps were becoming longer and longer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Reidy
- Gender
- Female
