School: Cill Fhíonáin (B.) (roll number 15992)
- Location:
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)in the field. Patrick O Brien was loosening the jaw stones and the youngster was throwing them out. As he was pulling up a stone he let it go with a cry. He drew his hands out of the hole and the left one was gashed from wrist to elbow. O Brien said that there must be something there. He dug around the place and exposed a dagger about 4 1/2 feet long with a great curved handle. It was found about a yard under the surface. The dagger was placed between the rafters and the slates at O Brien's and it is probably there yet. Tradition has it that this well removed when a woman washed her baby in it.
