School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Breathnach
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- There are two holy wells in Tullylease, a village three miles to the north of Freemount. St Berihert's feast day falls on the 18th of February, on which day rounds are paid at "St Ben's Well" and "Our Lady's Well" A large number of people go to Tullylease that day to pay honour to the saint. In a field near one of the wells there is a stone trough where people may be seen performing rounds that day also. This trough is called Cloc an Eild, that is "the hind's stone".
It is the custom with many who pay rounds at the holy wells mentioned, to go into the ruins of the old church in the graveyard nearby, where there is a slab having an incised cross engraved on it. Here prayers are said, and before leaving the pilgrim marks a cross on the slab with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Goulding
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Linehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynaguilla, Co. Cork
