School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)of the cross. Near the well stands the remains of a little thatched house where Father Moore was born and reared.
- St. John's well is situated on Knockaulinn. It is said anyone who goes there, on St. John's Eve and dips his face into the water, shall never get a disease.Patey Dix
- St. Patricks well is situated in Killashe. the water is always bubbling in it ad nobody knows where the spring is from. People go there to get cured.
- Collector
- Patsy Dix
- Gender
- Female
- There is another well in Turnant beyond Dunlavin called St. Nicholas' well. Many have been cured of sore eyes and sore legs. Once a woman used the water for household purposes, and in a couple of days afterwards she died of a terrible disease. Carmel Maguire.
