School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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- 4) "Every year on the 25th of July rounds are paid at the well. Every person who goes throws a pebble in to mark the rounds. Nobody likes to cut bushes around it. There are two other wells near it for household use. Long long ago there used to be tents at the well on the feast of St. James. It is said that one day the people of the well had a fight and that St. James separated them.
Nellie Weekes,
Carrig East (near well)
Clarina
- Collector
- Nellie Weekes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrig East, Co. Limerick
- 5) Many people got cured there. One man by the name of Peter Byrnes got cured there. He had turned eyes and he got cured. People go there yet and when they get cured they leave rosary beads on the bush and cloths also. They visit it on 25th July and say Our Fathers/Hail Marys/Glorias.
- 6) It is said that first the well was further in in the field. A woman washed clothes in it and on the following day it had moved nearer to the road where it is at present. Many people were cured. One of those had a pearl in his eye. His mother(continues on next page)
