School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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- (continued from previous page)well.
Long ago people tried to drain the well and found some small coins at the bottom of it. One day a woman went to the well for water. She put it on the fire to boil.
She left it there all day, but it did not boil. When she took it from the fire it was as cold as when she put it to boil. People say that it is wrong to use the water from a Holy Well.
There is a general belief that a Catholic Church was situated on the site of Trinity Well and that is the reason people "pay rounds" there on Trinity Sunday.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Loinsig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duarrigle, Co. Cork
