School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 04_001
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- (continued from previous page)An old man told me a story about Saint Columcilles Well. It is a Blessed Well in the village of Aughvale, and is about four yards from the graveyard.
He said there was a trout in this Well, when he was a young boy, and there was a church in the graveyard where Monks lived.
One day the monks caught the trout and put him alive on a fire. He jumped out of the fire, and made his way back to the Blessed Well again.
People who used to go to this Well to do stations, used to see the trout, and the track of the griddle on his back.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Austin Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Belclare, Co. Mayo
