School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 200
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- (continued from previous page)the prison door, and he told the Ballyvourney man to come out, and go home, and he closed the prison door on the other man and said "She will be in the care of you". He was hanged next morning.
Those are all the stories I ever heard to of St Abby.
There is a well too, near the Church in Ballyvourney and it is known as St Abby's Well. Some Protestants tried to boil the water a few years ago but it failed them. It is very deep. If a person wants a request from St Abby, and go twenty-one mornings fasting to Ballyvourney, and to sleep one night in the old Church, and empty out the well in the morning, and if they would get their request they would see a trout in the well when it would be nearly empty.
St Abby's bowl is to be seen at the site of the old Church. A few years ago a person could take it out in their hand, but one cannot take it out now without tearing down the wall.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Judy Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rusheen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rusheen, Co. Cork
