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1. Blessed Well

   

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   There was a blessed well in Horse Island up to about eighty or ninety years ago. It was dedicated to Saint Brendan. There were a great many of people cured there, and many cures and miracles wrought there long ago.

   My mother told me that her grandfather was telling her that there was a very rich man named Patrick Egan living in Low Island. He was supposed to be one of the richest men in all the Islands on the Fergus. But he married a woman who was very fond of money, so she wasted nearly all his money before he felt it. So he had to leave his family and his home and had to go as a beggar around the Islands. He sometimes went to the same houses too often so in the end nobody would give them anything. One evening he went to Tom Ginnane's houses but when he got there Tom Ginnane had the door bolted before them. So having no place to go he went to Saint Brendan's well and stayed there for the night. During the night there was a great thunderstorm and the lightning was very dangerous. It happened that Tom Ginnane was out at one of his cabins because there was one of his cows calving, and as he was going into the cabin he was struck dead with the lightning. It was said after that it was the poor man that cursed him. When Patrick Egan went to the blessed well he fell asleep about an hour after he dreamt that night that he saw The Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Brendan, and Saint

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eily Tuohy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Inishmore or Deer Island, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Mrs Tuohy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   40

   Address

   Inishmore or Deer Island, Co. Clare