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 11_030
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- (continued from previous page)you can stay and go through your own stations, when you have your station finished you kiss the Cross. There is a tree beside the well on which relics are left such as old pieces of rags and cloth. Some people took the water to use and it would not boil.
There is some old man or woman at the well and you give her alms. People bring some water home to their houses to put it on cut hands or feet. (Their) was a protestent man who tried to destroy the well, stopped it with stones, but the water sprang up in his parlour.
- Collector
- Maureen Gacquin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muckloon, Co. Galway
