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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 590

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  1. Gougane Barra

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    The holy well of Gougane is formed by the waters of the lake. It is a small stone enclosure, flagged overhead, to which the lake waters find admission beneath. In the old days there were two pilgrimages annually two Gougane, when crowds of men and women and children afflicated with various ailments and mains of person repaired to its healing water in the surve hope of being cured.
    The last hermitical occupant of Gougane was Fr. Denis Mahoney who found the place a ruin and as the times in which he lived were not calculated for its re-edification a ruin it has since remained A' round
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Location
    Guagán Barra, Co. Cork
    Collector
    Ena Kelleher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Macroom, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Rita O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Macroom, Co. Cork