School: An Bhlárna (C.)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Winifred Scantlebury
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0349, Page 138
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- This is a holy well situated between upper and lower Killeens. This well got its name long ago when the Priests of Ireland were forbidden to say Mass.
One day as a priest was going across the fields from Cork to Whitechurch to say Mass a scout came to meet him telling him that the Soldiers were at Whitechurch waiting to arrest him. Then the priest decided to say mass on the spot where he met the man who had told him about the soldiers. But the man said there is no water here so you can't mass here. Suddenly a well sprung up and it got its name as All Saints Well and ever since the people around the locality go and say prayers at the well on All Saints Day November 1st.
- Collector
- Mary Kelleher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- William Ruby
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killard, Co. Cork
