School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 08_019
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- (continued from previous page)comes to the well and he sits at the well and gives water to the people and they give him a penny or twopence. Some men play a football match in the field near the well.
Once upon a time the Castlegar people did not want the people to be tramping the land and they shut up the well. (Afer) After a while the well came up in (his) own house and they had to open the well again.
Long ago there lived an old woman in a little cabin where the well is now. Shew was a very holy woman. After she died a well came up. One day St Cuan was very thirsty he passed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maree O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon
