School: Clochar San Pól, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 13026)
- Location:
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)stories of this well put people say that when Saint Patrick was travelling through Ballinanima he washed his feet three times in it and took nine drinks of the water in honour of the Mysteries of Religion. My mother used to get water out of this well for about ten years and she made the tea out of it. It is similar to St Brigid's well in Ballintubber.
- There is a well in Ballinanima called Tobar Mór and it is supposed to be there for hundreds of years.
It seems to be a good well because people visit it and drink the water and sometimes take it home with them because they say it is very good to drink pure spring water. There is a passage going into it from the road in Ballinanima.
It got its name from a castle that was there in years gone by and the castle was called Castle Mór.
About nine years ago as a man went down to the well for water he saw a woman sitting on a large stone near it. When she saw him coming she disappeared but left the print of her five fingers on a stone. They are to be seen on the stone yet. - Collector
- Eily Hussey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
