School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 294
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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.
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- Ella Dunne
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- Female
- 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.
