School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown
- Location:
- Glantane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0362, Page 214
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- Near the top of Scarra Hill in this parish (Kilshannig, Barony Duhallow, Co. Cork) is a well named Tobar Caoch. Several cures were wrought at this well, especially sore eyes were cured.
Long ago there was a tree growing beside the well on which pieces of cloth and rosary beads were hung. The Protestant owner of the land in which the well is situated did not like to see the people coming to pay rounds. He cut down the tree, and a few days later his hand became very sore and any doctor he went to could not cure it. At last somebody advised him to bathe his hand in the water flowing from the Well. He did so and in a short time his hand was cured. He never afterwards tried to prevent people from paying rounds at the well.
About five years ago the farm in which Tobar Caoch is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Ó Connaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glantane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Bolster
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glantane, Co. Cork
