School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)
- Location:
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Patrick Kelleher
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 017
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballymartle
- XML Page 017
- XML “Holy Wells”
- XML “Holy Wells”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)3.
There is another holy well at the foot of the Dulieve mountains and it is in Mr Kelly's land too, and it is supposed to be the best well in County Cork for drinking water, it is springing from a rock at the foot of the mountain.
- 1.
There is a holy well on the land of Mr Barry [?] land and it is a very small one. There were a lot of holy ornaments around it, and the old people say that a great many people were cured by drinking its water, and each time a person goes on a visit to the well leaves something belonging to them there.2.
There is another holy well on the land of Mr. Lehane, and there was always a little cup over it(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cait Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jim Daly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
