School: Gleann Bruacháin (C.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12614)

Location:
Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bríd, Bean Uí Sheighin
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    day's fun It is said that this well was situated on the side of the road about 2 miles from here on the road to Kilmallock but a beggar woman came along and washed the child into the well, and the following morning it had removed. The place of a well is thee of some prints on the stones of the old people say that it was the print of the mother and child.
    On the night that it removed a family called Mahoney noticed a very strange light in the middle of a field of theirs and heard some lovely music coming seemingly out of a "Ceo" which was round the light. They did not go near it and when morning came, the well had arrived in the very spot where they had seen the light the night before. People from far off places even from Dublin come to this well and give rounds, and it is said that many are the cures effected there. The well is round and situated in the centre of a field and a stream flows out of it. Inside is a little ledge of rock, upon which at statues and objects of devotion and also glasses out of
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