School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 345
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is a Blessed well over near Kelly’s house. It is called ‘Tobar Inghíne Bhaoith. It is down on a flag and no matter how dry the weather is or how wet, the well would not get bigger or smaller. A family near by brought some of the blessed water in to boil and it failed them to boil it.Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla, Coisgle, Coad.
Told by: - John Costello, Coad (his father)
(58 years) - St. Inghine Baoith (i.e. the daughter of the Dalcassian Chief Baoith) has three holy wells in this parish named after her.
- There is a blessed well near Dick Scales’s called ‘Bolán Phádraig’. This well had stones around it. Some of the stones were taken for a house and it is said that part of the house never dried. St. Patrick left his crozier on a stone and the print of it is there on the flag.Collected by: - Seosamh Mac Giolla, Coisgle, Coad(continues on next page)
