School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)away with them. When people are cured they leave something in thanksgiving.
Saint Colman's well was formed as follows - it is said that when Saint Colman was building the tower a woman went to draw water, and when she saw the tower she said "that is great work": but she forgot to bless it. This made Saint Colman angry. He jumped from the top of the tower and alighted on Kilrea where a well sprang. This is how it was called Saint Colman's well.
There is a "wart well" in Mr. Creed's land and if you bathed a wart in it the wart would be cured.
- There are two holy wells in the district of Cloyne. The best known one is Saint Colman's well, which is on the top of Kilrea Hill. The well is in a field called Saint Colman's Sister. It is said that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Morrissey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
