School: Baile Chíorbhaic, Domhnach Mór (roll number 1691)
- Location:
- Ballykerwick, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0347, Page 027
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- It is said that, long ago a saint lived in this townland. His name was Cummeen, and it is said that he blessed a well between our land and Michael Foley's land.
Late one night a woman came to the well for water and she saw a man kneeling by the well, dressed in clothes which were not of that period.
It is also said that a blind man came there, spent a day and a night in prayer by the well and washed his eyes three times with the of it, and he was cured.
A white-thorn tree which was said to be planted over the well by the saint, was rooted several times, but it grew there again and it is there to this day. A field, in our land, which bounds the well is called The Well field.
- Collector
- Julia Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Commeenaplaw, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Denis Foley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commeenaplaw, Co. Cork
