School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 139
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“Folach Fiadh is a bank of burned stones.”
(continued from previous page)people bought it. A man near Mallow went to this well to buy the water. Two women lived near him and one of them dreamt that she would get water better a mile from the well near the Folach Fiadh.One day the woman got sick and she asked the man for a drop of water and he would not give it to her and she said that he would not get any more water at that well. A taste came in the water and he got no more water there. When he went away the water was all right.There was another well in Mikie Sweeney's land of Doon. All the neighbours used to get water there.One day two men who were not agreeing went to and met at the well and one of them killed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Conchubhar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonasleen South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Pádruig Ó Concubhar
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43