School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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- (continued from previous page)ago on the night John Brennan was born the well dried up. They had
scutchers from Tyrone working for them and one of these women acted as midwife. She polluted the well by washing the soiled linens after the birth in it, and even while she washed, the level of the water began to sink and on the following morning the well was completely dry. In time it filled up and was completely forgotten till Mr Henry Morriss aroused a little local enthusiasm and under his guidence, at a depth of about 12 feet the stream that fed the well was rediscovered a sparking ice cold stream. But it would not rise; it percolated through the rocks and formed a new spring about 30 yards from where St Patrick blessed the original fountain. John Brennan rebuilt the barn at the end of his house three times. He changed the door in it three times putting it in the front the
south gable, and the back, there was a common gable for it and the dwelling house on the north side. And his reason was, that every time his birthday came round a ghostly gang of flax scutchers would spend that night in the barn scutching as they were on the night he was born and Patrick's well was polluted. The northern half Kilnamanagh is called Ballinvoher (Baile an bhothair though Tom Connolly says the correct words are Bailín a'bhothair). In passing it might be well to remark that the old people(continues on next page)
