School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0354, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)street, County Cork there is a holy well. People visit the well still.
A lot of people were cured there. There was a woman of the name of Margaret Leary, and she was a patient in Millstreet Hospital, and she had a crutch. One day she went to the well, and when she was kneeling down a fish appeared in the well, and when she stood up, her leg was cured. She left the crutch at the well.
Another story says, that the people used to use the well water and one morning a fish was seen inside in a kettle.
In the parish of Liscarroll, Mallow,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Lucey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
