School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 084
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- (continued from previous page)special days for praying at Tournant well that I know of are the Sunday before and after the 29th of June. The people who visit the well usually leave small relics like medals and crosses at the well and bring some of the water away with them but not for household purposes. There is no fish in the well. There is a rock near the well with a hollow in it which is always full of water
- An old women in Dunlavin told me that she heard that this district suffered very little from the famine, because long ago many rich people lived around Dunlavin. When the famine came they were very generous to their poorer neighbours.
Before the famine there lived(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs J. Valentine
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
