School: Scoil na mBráthar, Portlaoighse
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br. Frampton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 318
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- (continued from previous page)water out of the well. It is said that the fish is there to be seen to this day.
- Fr O' Connells Welll is on the Dublin road a half mile out from Portlaoighise. He came from Tipperary and he was a P.P. priest in Portlaoighise. One evening he went off for a walk around the back of the prison. He stopped and paused and he saw a little spring and he stuck his stick in the spring and then the water started bubbling up in a lot of places. He got it cemented in a ring and after that it was Fr O' Connells(continues on next page)
- Collector
- E. Wilson
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
