School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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- Blessed Wells
There is a blessed well in Killgover. People do stations at this well on Sundays but the most of them do the stations on the 15 of August. People rub the water on any sore and they also drink the water. The people do stations for the dead and the living. If they are doing the station for the living they walk in the stream, and if for the dead they walk on the grass. There is the ruins of an old church there. The people go into the church and say prayers there, They leave some relic there. A hair(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Laghta Oughter, Co. Mayo
