School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- Up there in Ballycroum there is a well called Tobar Gráiné placed in the middle of a bog, with a large flag stone over it. It is not called after any saint Long ago there was about three or four shillings, hair pins and pins left there.
One day someone took the money and then the well remove further up the hill but it is back again in the same place
About two hundred yards to the west of this there is an Altar stone where a priest who fled from Ulster in the penal times made an Altar to celebrate Mass
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- Gender
- Female
