School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)

Location:: Aghagower, Co. Mayo
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Holy Wells (continued)

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Cushen well are performed on two Mondays and a Wednesday. There has to be seven rounds done outside the wall of the well and three rounds inside the wall of the well. When the station is finished some people drink some of the water and they bring home bottles of it. At the well of Aughagower there is a trees beside it. There is a fish in it also.
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Proverbs

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Manners begin at the hearth stone.
Nature breaks out in the eyes of a cat
Blood is thicker than water
Cool before you sip
The hills look green far away.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man wealthy healthy and wise

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