School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)223some of the water for curing purposes. This well is situated in Ballinaslaney about 1 mile from OylegateBessie Edwards
The above was told to me by
Mr Edwards,
Oylegate.
- St David's Well.Tradition tells us of St David and his Blessed Well in Ballinaslaney in the early stages of Christianity in Ireland.
St David we are told preached a Gospel to the people of Wexford and erected a church in Ballinaslaney. Many were the miracles worked by his aid at the Blessed Well that is beneath his statue in Ballinaslaney. Tradition tells us that when the plague was sweeping the country that anyone who drank of its waters was either cured or never got the plague as happened to other Blessed Wells in the country St David's was in oblivion for centuries and the church was torn down(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maggie Savage
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynaslaney, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Savage
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynaslaney, Co. Wexford
