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1. Holy Wells

   

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   There are no real holy wells in the parish, but there are "spas" and other wells which were supposed to be blessed by priests long ago. On our farms about eighty years ago, there was a spring well at the foot of a rock. This well was thought to be blessed by a priest a long time ago. Doctors said that the water was the purest in the district, and that it was very healthy to drink a glass of it daily. Below the well, in the stream that went from it, there grew beautiful sweet, green watergrass. It was very healthy to eat some of this grass in the morning. When the sportsmen used to be hunting on the mountains they used to fill their handkerchiefs with this grass and bring it away. It is still growing in the stream, but is not as sweet as it was then.
   At this time, there was a man and a woman living in a cabin in the rock. One evening after sunset the woman washed clothes in the well. Next morning she went out for water, but there was no water to be got. After some years, the man noticed the ground getting wet around the "mearing" between Curnynflynn and Legnagrow. he looked at the side of the fence of Legnagrow, and saw a springwell similar to the one on his own land. There was nothing left there only a deep hole, and that same hole is there yet. The green path on which the water flowed to the other side of the ditch is to seen also.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Roise Ní Sámhrain

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   James Mc Govern

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male