School: Cnoc an Éin, Cuinche
- Location:
- Knockanean, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0594, Page 233
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- (continued from previous page)one injuring the well or of anyone who brought home some of the water. There is a tree near the well.
- There is a blessed well in my townland called St Michael's Well. A great many people visit it and do rounds on St. Michael's Day. Many people are cured of sore eyes by rubbing the water to their eyes. Some people bring home the water. The people leave flowers, money, and candles at the well. They leave them over the well. There is a little stream near the well and above the well there is a big tree. There is the print of a hatchet and a saw in the tree. It is said that men went to cut the tree and something frightened them. They stopped and the mark of the hatchet and saw is still in the tree. The tree changed to another place. There are also the remains of an old church near the well. It is a very lonely place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mangan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Kilbreckan, Co. Clare
