School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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- There is one holy well in this parish blessed by St. Kevin when he was in the Wicklow hills. It is in Glasnamullen.
The people don't visit it on special days, but when ever they are passing if they have any disease, such as a cold or sore eyes, they drink the water.
It is said people have been cured by this well. They had sore eyes and every morning they used to go and bathe their eyes and the people that got cured tied the rag they bathed their eyes with on a little hawthorn that is growing beside it. St. Kevin is said to have blessed this well and,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Miss Muriel Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballinastoe, Co. Wicklow
