School: Baile Ard
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 096
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Ard
- XML Page 096
- XML “Tobar Credaun”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- This blessed well is not in our school district but as people of the district go there to perform rounds
There are two churches where this well is situated about a mile from Carrigaholt. Teampall Searlas Because Charles McDonnell of Kilkee was buried there.
Teampall an Aird has no burial attached but a holy well called Tobar Creadáin.
I think people go there also and bathe their eyes in the water to cure them if they had sore eyes.
There is the ruin of a church further back in Ross called the church of the nine saints.
Cill Mac Duan is situated about 8 miles from this school. There is no information is to hand about the saint although several families called after(continues on next page)
