School: Lowtown (B.), Galbally
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)ago there was a blind woman at the well. She saw the trout and the minute she saw the trout her eyesight came back to her. She put a beautiful statue of Our Lady at the well and the well is ever since known as Our Lady's Well.
There is a bush beside the well and people hang pieces of rags on the bush.
There is a holy well in Duntryleague known as St. Patrick's Well. There is a pattern held there every year on the 17th March. St. Patrick passed through Duntryleague on his way from Cashel to Kilmurry where he stayed for one night at a house owned by people called Hennessey.
There is a well in Mitchelstown(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seosamh Ó Fearghaill
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Limerick
