School: An Clochar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 4268)
- Location:
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
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- (continued from previous page)she was so beautiful. She herself wished to be a nun and it is said she plucked out her eye to spoil her beauty. Where it fell on the ground a well sprung up and a bush grew over it. This well has therefore a cure for sore eyes. Several people have been cured here. They pay nine rounds at the well and leave behind them either a religious token or a piece of cloth or ribbon that has touched the sore. Sometimes those who have real faith are cured.
People bathe in the well water, others take a sip of the water and others bless themselves with it all according to their own belief. The water is also taken home in bottles and is used in the house.
- There is a holy well about one mile South of Doneraile. There is a cure in the water for warts, and for blindness. It is said that if a blind person made the sign of the cross with the water each day for three days she would be cured. It is called "Tobar na Súile".
