School: Sheanmore (roll number 16197)

Location:: Sheeanmore, Co. Mayo
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Station of Bunmore Well

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There is a station done at Bunmmore well every year. It is done on the fifteenth of August. Everyone goes and makes a station at the Well. There is a stream near the Well where everyone takes off his shoes and washes his feet and hands and head. Then they pick up seven stones out of the stream. They go up to the well and kneel down and say seven Our Fathers seven Hail Marys and seven Glorias. Then they get up and go around the well seven times, and say one Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glorias each time, They throw in a stone each time, so as to know how many times they would go around. When they have all that done they kneel down and say one Our Father One Hail Mary and
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Language

Irish
Location

Doona, Co. Mayo

Collector
Máire Ní Chléirigh
Gender

Female

Informant
Máirtín Ó Cléirigh
Gender

Male