School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:: Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:: Patrick Kelleher

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Holy Wells (continued)

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The people of the district used to go from well to well and spend a great part of the day in prayer, but those wells are closed in now by overgrown furze.
One of those wells can be found yet but the other cannot.

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Holy Wells

1.
There is a holy well in my District. It is situated in a field long side of a wood in Mr Sheenan's land. There is a palm tree growing over it. It is a very deep well with a big lot of steps going down into it. It is said that long ago a lot of people with diseases would come from all parts of the district to visit the holy well.

2.
These people would stay around

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