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 22_020
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- (continued from previous page)Holy Wells.once for each of the fifteen decades. There are stones all round the well and there is one flat one with writing on it. People who are sick or have any disease go to the well to do a station and drink some of the water. People come along journeys some twelve or fifteen miles to do a station. It is made any time from October the first to the fifteenth. The owner of the field in which Saint Kevin's well is, tried to stop the well and a well rushed up in his parlour.
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- Collector
- Annie Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castle Ffrench, Co. Galway
