School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
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- (continued from previous page)do not use the water as it would not boil and the reason of this is that one night a man was going home by this well and he fell into it but was not drowned but he cursed it.
- There is a well in a field between Ballynacargy and Irishtown called "the blessed well". There was a cure attached to the well at one time but is departed when a tree was cut down which grew over it was cut down.
- Collector
- Marcella Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmacnevan, Co. Westmeath