School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- (continued from previous page)well & an angel flew from the Well, thro Dunamaggan & down to an old house in Kilmoganny & since then, no animals were killed by thunder or lightning.
Ther is a fish in the well & to anybody who tried to catch it, something always happened.
- People visited it (St Leonard's Well) during the month of July and took a drink of the water & washed their feet in the stream which flows from the well. It was believed to cure pains in the limbs.
- Collector
- Maura Power
- Gender
- Female
- There are only two holy wells in this District. One in Dunnamaggan & is called St Leonard's Well. A woman from Dunnamaggan had bad sight but after she had washed in the holy well, her sight was restored.
The other well, in Currahill, is called St Luke's Well, but I never heard of anybody going to that well to be cured. - St Leonard's Well
The well water cannot be boiled (Gretta Butler contradicts this & says that a man from Kilmoganny brought some home & boiled it). It heals sores by pouring the water on the sores. There is a railing around the well with bushes growing inside the railing.
