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School: Lisdoonan

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Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 208

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  1. Tobar Lasra

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    There is a holy well in the parish of Donaghmoyne and it is called ''Tobar Lasra'' which means the well of light. It is in a meadow, the property of Thomas Hill. It is there a very long time and how it came there was that when St Patrick was teaching in Donaghmoyne he was baptising a man in this meadow and he had no water. St Patrick stuck his staff down deep in the group and immediately water sprang up and formed a well and it is there since. It was along a fence and the protestant man of the neighbourhood washed a little dog in it and it moved a distance of some yards out in the meadow. The tie for the pilgrimage to this well is the first sun day of may and the first Sunday of August and a large number of people go to it for it is said that there are cures in it. If you wash your face in the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ena Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Owen Mc Cabe
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan