School: Montfield
- Location:
- Horetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M. Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 083
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- There is a holy well in Gragherogue
it is dedicated to St. Margaret. One
evening a tinker woman washed clothes in it. Another night two women were walking up the road.
They saw the well moving across
the fields with lighted candles around
it and it stopped in one of the fields.
