came into existence. It is an indisputable historical fact that as far back as the reign of Edward I, a full and free pardon was granted by that monarch to the Friars for having acquired contrary to the Statute of Mortmain, some land for rebuilding their Monastery, which was fast crumbling to decay. From the 14th century downwards the historian's task in comparatively easy. Walter Mulcot was the generous donor who, of his own free gift founded the Abbey and the Monastery now the proud possessions of St Augustine's sons in this 20th century. Nothing definitely can be found to indicate who and what this Walter Mulcot was. This generous donor left a large amount of property to the Augustinians. In the year 1306 the foundation of both Church and Monastery took place. In the reign of Henry VIII the Abbey, Monastery and possessions pertaining thereto were confiscated, and handed over to Sir Edward Butler for ever, at a head rent of 5/4 Irish money (five shillings and fourpence) The long, dark night of cruel and relentless persecution of Ireland had now set in. It may well be conjectured that many a son of St.

would be cured. St Luchtigern's well is a cure for sore eyes. St Malorie's well has a cure for sore eyes. The cure in St Catherine's well is not known. The cure at St Senan's well is nor known. The cure at St Brendan's is not known. It is an old custom for people to leave money or flowers after them when they visit the wells .

There are five holy wells in the parish of Newmarket. The names of them are as follows - St Luchtighern's well in Fenloe. St Catherine's well in Carigoran. St Malorie's well in Kilmaleery. St Senan's well in Kilconry. St Brendan's well in Clonmoney. People visit those wells on certain days; St Luchtighern's well on the 28th April. People say some prayers there. There are no certain prayers to be said, but people usually say one round of the Rosary Beads. There was a stone near the well in Fenloe called the Cholera stone and if any person had a sore leg and rubbed it to the stone the person

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"Ancient stones in this district"There is a place in Feighquin called "leacht na marbh".There is around heap of stones raised to a point there. It is said that there is a chieftain buried there. The reason it is called "leacht na marbh". is,long ago the main road passed by the side of this leacht of stones. When a funeral was passing by, they used to rest the coffin on the top of the leacht, and everyone at the funeral would leave a stone on the "leacht". There is a remarkable stone in the wall which is built around Fenloe grave yard. There are two round prints on the stone. When the people go to visit Finloe well on the 28th of April, they go to this stone and rub their legs against it three times, blessing themselves at the same time.

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would be cured. St Luchtigern's well is a cure for sore eyes. St Malorie's well has a cure for sore eyes.The cure in St Catherine's well is not known. The cure at St Senan's well is nor known. The cure at St Brendan's is not known. It is an old custom for people to leave money or flowers after them when they visit the wells .

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would be cured. St Luchtigern's well is a cure for sore eyes. St Malorie's well has a cure for sore eyes.The cure in St Catherine's well is not known. The cure at St Senan's well is nor known. The cure at St Brendan's is not known. It is an old custom for people to leave money or flowers after them when they visit the wells .

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Blessed Wells. there are five holy wells in the parish of Newmarket.The names of them are as follows - St Luchtighern's well in Fenloe. St Catherine's well in Carigoran. St Malorie's well in Kilmaleery. St Senan's well in Kilconry. St Brendan's well in Clonmoney. People visit these wells on certain days-,St Luchtighern's well on the 28th April. People say some prayers there.There are no certain prayers to be said, but people usually say one round of the Rosary Beads. There was a stone near the well in Fenloe called the Cholera stone and if any person had a sore leg and rubbed it to the stone the person

The ruins of an ancient church are to be seen there. In front of this ruin there is a famous there is a famous lake. Long ago the people got a very bad sickness and the went to Fenloe lake washed their feet in the lake and then they were cured. There is a story told about the images of three priests which are to be seen on the boundary wall opposite to that of the cholera stone. The three images are side by side. The centre image represents a martyr of the faith.The image on the right is a repestent martyr and the other one is a

The ruins of an ancient church are to be seen there. In front of this ruin there is a famous there is a famous lake. Long ago the people got a very bad sickness and the went to Fenloe lake washed their feet in the lake and then they were cured. There is a story told about the images of three priests which are to be seen on the boundary wall opposite to that of the cholera stone. The three images are side by side. The centre image represents a martyr of the faith.The image on the right is a repestent martyr and the other one is a

The smiths make spades, "baisins", socs for ploughs, tongs and they band wheels. They do all this by reddening iron, they sledge it to make it thin.
In the summer the smiths band wheels in the open air. Small pieces of red iron are used for horse's shoes and staples and many other things. Every smith keeps water in his forge.

There are three forges in the parish. The names of the smiths who own them are, Thomas Guilfoyle, Patrick Crotty, Thomas Hallinan. There forefathers were smiths. Patrick Crotty's forge is situated in a field beside an old well about a hundred yards from the main road. This road leads to Clonmel and Dungarvan. In front of the forge runs the Nire river. Thomas Hallinan's forge is situated in Cloughcooney on a mountain road about about three miles from the main road. Thomas Guilfoyle's forge is situated near Newtown by the right hand side of the bye-road.
Two of the forges have slate roofs and the other forge has a thatched roof. There is only one fireplace in each forge. The smiths have small bellows. They are not made in the place. The implements the smith has in his forge are, hammer, pincers, chisel, rasp, nails and iron. Horses, donkeys, jennets and ponies are shod.

Fitzgeralds were dividing the horses between them and there was one horse over and above and they did not know what to do with the animal. They decided to go to battle and fight for the horse. The battle was fought at Newcastle. The Scart chieftain shot Prendergast and he rode home again by Croughclooney.
The chieftains maid was standing outside the castle, she shouted at Fitzgerald to know how he got on. He told her and he said to tell the old man not to eat his dinner until he would have a limb of his own chicken on the table for dinner, by this he meant that his brother was shot at Newcastle. The old man who was blind told her to ask what was he saying so he told her all over again. While he was talking the old man shot him through the window and he fell off the horse just at the

Stones, Crosses etc.
In certain places there are stones standing in fields and beside the road. Some of these were laid over the grave of a noble man and on some of these tombstones there is a kind of writing called Ogham. There is a big stone in a field in Priestown in the property of James O'Neill and there is a big giant buried there under this stone. It is said that the giant carried this huge stone from Ardfinnan. He had a pistol and a terrier and these were buried with him. One dark night Thomas O'Neill (James O'Neill's father) was coming home from the fair of Windgap. It was about midnight when he was passing through the field in which the stone is. When he came in sight of the stone he saw a big man dressed in white, he had something in his hand and beside him was standing the white terrier. He could hear a child crying at the top of its voice. He nearly died of fright and he ran home.

A blacksmith is very handy for shoing houres a blacksmith always makes shoes for houres and without a blacksmith you can't shoe a hourse nor a donkey. He has very hard work to do with houres and donkeys do put shoes on them. If you went do get on four shoes on your houres the blacksmith will put them on for you on your houres

for shoping and many other things. This is the way creels is made first get some saly rods and cut them short. Then twist the rods in and out until the creels is made. Then they get more rods and plath them together and make handles for side so that they can hang the creels on the donkeys back. Then another creel is made the same way as the first. Then the two creels are completed. I think that creels are very useful for turf and great many other uses. Work in the forge.
A blacksmith has a very nice job working the forge. This is the kind of work a blacksmith has to do in the forge. People come from all parts of the world with donkeys and horses to the forge to get them shod. First of all the blacksmith pears the animals hoof and then puts on new shoes. In these shoes there are holes and the blacksmith drives some nails through these so that the shoe will stay on. This is how the blacksmith shoes the animals. The blacksmith also makes wheels loys spades and a lot of other irons which is useful to people. A blacksmith is a hard

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or else it is thrown into the fire . Flannel is blessed on St Flannan's day ,and is used for pains on the bones, a stitch in the side, or a colic. Water from blessed wells is kept in several houses, and three drops of it are drunk in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost to take away pains especially in the stomach. The water from St Senan's well is given to horses to take away worms ,and is also shaken in the garden to kill insects. Easter water is brought home on Easter Saturday, and is given to cattle when they get sick. Some people shake it in the gardens. People in this parish get three drops of it to drink when they are ill.

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performing the "Rounds" at this well are two Sundays and a Thursday or on two Thursdays and a Sunday. Certain prayers have to be said during the performance of the "Round". Crowds of people come to perform "Rounds" on the 19th of December because it is the feast of St. Flannan. There is another Blessed Well in the townland of Ahashla near a lake. It is dedicated to St Winifred. It is patronised by people suffering from defective sight .No fish is supposed to inhabit that Well. Many people perform "Rounds" there. The water is considered very valuable.

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there and perform a "Round" when they had the "Round" performed they used put their heads through a large stone which was standing beside the well.In a small house near by there lived a foolish young man. Several times he asked his mother why all the people were coming there and staring at himself, she told him the reason of their coming. Soon after he got a sledge and broke the stone and that put an end to the people coming. A well dedicated to St Flannan is on the borders of KIlnamona and Inagh, and it is in the townland of Drumanure. A story is told concerning this well, some years ago a strange lady came to this well to perform a "Round" she thought to make it more attractive and so she white washed the stones inside and outside, soon after this, the well disappeared from that place and appeared in another place near by, but the new well was not white washed. No fish is supposed to inhabit the well. The usual days for

St. Patrick’s Well – St. Patrick's Well is a small cavity in the solid flag foreshore, between high and low water marks, and one hundred yards of Unshin river. The spring is perennial and is quite unaffected by temperature or season. Pilgrims from the neighbourhood and from County Leitrim still frequent this extraordinary Well in fairly large numbers, and often leave behind them memorials of prefect cures. When St. Patrick crossed the Erne a vast multitude of people gathered around him at this spot, and a poor mother leading along a crippled boy, was among the first to accost him, imploring him to restore to her child the active use of his palsied leg. She was crushed back by the inrushing crowd, and it was only after the sermon and the day’s proceedings had concluded that she succeeded in again arresting his attention. Stung with sympathetic remorse at his detention of the young

came into existence. It is an indisputable historical fact that as far back as the reign of Edward I, a full and free pardon was granted by that monarch to the Friars for having required contrary to the Statute of Mortmain, some land for re building their Monastery, which was fast crumbling to decay.
From the 14th century downwards the his-torian's task in comparatively easy. Walter Mulcot was the generous donor who, of his own free gift founded the abbey and the Monastery now the proud possessions of St Augustines [??] in this 20th cnetury. Nothing definitely can be found to indicate who and what this Walter Mulcot was. This generous donor left a large amount of property to the Augustinians. In the year 1306 the foundations of both Church and Monastery took place. In the reign of Henry VIII the abbey, Monastery and possessions pertaining there to were confiscated, and handed over to Sir Edward Butler for war, at a head rent of 5/4 Irish money (five shillings and fourpence) The long, dark might of cruel and relentless persecution of Ireland had now set in. It may well be conjectured that many a son of St.

The Convent and Monastery of Fethard have come in for a fair share of historical research, and much that is of interest and importance about them is happily outs today owning to the absence of documents to prove the foundation of the Order in Fethard, it is impossible to fix the precise state, or even to conjecture in what particular century it took place. It must have been considerable interior to the early part of the 14th century in which the present ancient Church and Monastery

In the townland of Cann about half a mile south of Mount-Temple in a field owned by my father there is a well called Garret's well.As my great great grandfather was making a roadway through his land he came to a large rock which had to be blasted to be taken out of its place.
He gave it a blow of a sledge and split it in two parts. Through the split a stream of water gushed forth. It is now a never failing spring well. Garret Ledwith was the man's name and the well is always called Garret's well.

At ten oclock the wake begins, It is generally young people that attend the wake. It is very seldom the old people go to the wake, as they attend the corpse house during the day.
There are five candles lighted on a little table at the side of the bed, and there is an other little table with tobacco and pipes, for the people of the wake. When they, that go to the wake, go into the house they go over to the bed, kneel down, and say prayers for the repose of the soul. Then they take a seat, and they are handed a pipe, tobacco, matches, and some snuff. The wake is over at about three or four oclock in the morning. All of them go home except the friends and neighbours, and the I people of the house. They used to play a lot of tricks at the wakes years ago, but they do not do so now.

and then rub the perspiration to the sores they are immediately cured.
Flory Hogan of Garrane near this school got cured in Wether's well. He left his crutches in the bushes that surround the well. He has disabled legs and he could not walk. It is said that just before he was cured he saw this large trout in the well. A child that is not right (simpleton) is tied with a rope around the waist and is then let down into the waters of the well three times. People perform round around the well, altar, and grave where the slain priest is supposed to be buried. Others say that the well was there before the time of St Brendan and that it is there he was baptised and buried. Thomas Healy Listellick (----) Tralee aged 85 years St Brendan was supposed to be baptised in this well by St Erc

and then rub the perspiration to the sores they are immediately cured.
Flory Hogan of Garrane near this school got cured in Wether's well. He left his crutches in the bushes that surround the well. He has disabled legs and he could not walk. It is said that just before he was cured he saw this large trout in the well. A child that is not right (simpleton) is tied with a rope around the waist and is then let down into the waters of the well three times. People perform round around the well, altar, and grave where the slain priest is supposed to be buried. Others say that the well was there before the time of St Brendan and that it is there he was baptised and buried. Thomas Healy Listellick (----) Tralee aged 85 years St Brendan was supposed to be baptised in this we;; by St Erc

supposed also that one of the priests that was saying holy mass there was caught and killed by the Danes and that a blessed well sprang up where he was slain. It is also supposed that the water used to boil there at certain periods.
One day a neighbour took home a bucket of this water to boil it, but if the water was --- (------) since it would not boil, because this silver trout that used to be seen was in the pail of water.There are three days on which rounds are performed there namely the Saterday before May Day, St John's Eve. Three and Michaelmas Eve. Disabled or crippled people or the blind must bathe in the waters of the well. A long time ago a great miracle happened here one St John's Eve. Three disabled boys came to the well with three pairs of crutches. After paying their three rounds they went into the well and bathed in it and they were immediately cured they left their crutches after them. This is how they perform the rounds there (ie) They say two rosaries around a bunch(clump) of trees (b) they say three rosaries around the well and after each rosary they kneel down and ask their request (c) they finish up praying at the altar stone. There are three stones there shaped like a heart and they are supposed to be seating (perspiring) at certain ---- and when people rub their fingers to them

Long ago when the Danes were here, the priests were not allowed to say mass in their little churches so they had to say it in lonely places. One day in a lonely corner of a field in Tubrid (Tubrid) a priest started mass.
The priest hunter came along but the priest did not stop from saying mass as he was at the consecration. As the priest hunters appeared they did not see the priest but instead they and there blood hounds saw three lovely wethers who all of a sudden made their way towards the sea drawing the priest hunters and their hounds after them. The wethers entered the sea at a place in Banna Strand called "atha Caoraé" A stream of water marks the course ---- by the wethers from where the hounds ---- them right on to where they entered the sea at Atha Chaorach in Banna strand. The well is noted for its great powers of healing all kinds of diseases. The rounds are performed there on the 24th June or 1st of May. The people who pay rounds there say three rosaries one at the well one at the altar stone, and another while walking around the altar stone, and another while walking around the altar stone and well. When a sick person who visits this well sees a large silver trout he is immediately cured. It is

people of Island Eddy put the coal into the girl's pinafore and it burnt her. When St Surney heard this she said that the people of Island Eddie would never come to Aran with a dry foot and hence the tide flows between Island Eddie and the mainland

had another well in Island Eddie My grandaunt got cured at this well, by visiting the well on the days appointed. Then she took some of the clay from the side of the well and rubbed it to her tooth every night.
There is a very sad story in which St Surney is connected with Island Eddie. One day St Surney's fire was quenched and she her servant to Island Eddy for a burning coal. The

Saint Surney is our local saint. She lived in Drumacoo, about a mile from here. There is a graveyard at present round her house. He bed is inside the graveyard gate.
A well known as St Sourney's Well is situated in a field beside the graveyard. If a person is subject to a constant headache he goes to this well for a cure. He goes to the well

three times, on Monday, Thursday and the following Monday.
Every time he visits the well he should leave something, if only a button, on a bank of earth which is raised beside the well. He says certain prayers at the well, then he brings a bottle of water from the well and washes his forehead with it every day. St Surney spent her life in poverty and prayer. St Surney

Saint Surney is our local saitn. She lived in Drumacoo, about a mile from here. There is a graveyard at present round her house. He bed is inside the graveyard gate.
A well known as St Sourney's Well is situated in a field beside the graveyard. If a person is subject to a constant headache he goes to this well for a cure. He goes to the well

This well is situated in the parish of Dunshaughlin in a field adjacent to the public road beside the Sileachan college of Warrenstown. A railing was erected round it by the Fathers or Brothers of the Sileachan community. A Whitethorn bush hangs over the well. The tradition is that St. John stuck the water in the holy land with his staff. The water gushed out from the

A man called Leonard ownes the property of Warrenstown. This time he was spending a holiday in the Holy Land. He dropped his walking stick in the River Jordan.
Some years afterwards he noticed one of his cows always licking a large stone in one of his fields. To gratify his curiosity he got the stone removed immediately water gushed forth and up comes the long lost walking stick. The well was called St John's well from St John's connection with the Jordan. Crowds used to visit this well on June 24th.The water is said to bubble up at 12 oc midnight on St John's eve.

Some cures have been effected there in times gone by.
One little girl was unable to walk until she was seven. She was brought to Oran. Stations were performed and she hot the use of her limbs. Another English lady whose child did not walk for four years brought him there and he was cured. There is a splendid statue erected to St Patrick on the road-side beside the wells. This work was accomplished by the late Very Rev Canon Keane (go ndenaidh Dia Trocaire ar a ainm) about six years ago.

dropped at the end of the round.
The pilgrim then proceeds to the first well and washes his feet there in, goes to the second well and washes his face & hands and to the third well and drinks three mouthfuls out of it. From thence to the stone imprint of the knee, kisses its three corners and says fifteen Our Fathers, fifteen Hail Mary's and fifteen Glorias. This concludes the stations. The other stations are performed in the same way. The third well is then visited and the local belief is -if you see the fish which is supposed to inhabit the well you will get whatever request you have asked,

This is the way in which the stations are performed-
The pilgrim first goes to the stone slab in front of the hawthorn bush, kneels down, says fifteen Our Father, Hail Marys & Glorias Standing up he or she bends down, Kisses the stone & picks up seven pebbles from the base of the slab and journey round the wells until the stone is reached again. While going round Seven Our Fathers Seven Hail Marys & Seven Glorias are said. On returning to stone he or she kneels down and says Seven Gloria's Seven Hail Marys & Seven Our Fathers as before. One of the pebbles is there dropped. This is continued for seven times. Same prayers being repeated on each occasion & a pebble

and in front of it is a flat stone rounded on top. Engraved on it is writing which is impossible to decipher although the late Very Rev Canon Kean PP of this parish had its surface cleaned.
On the left hand side of the wells is a stone embedded in the ground and in it is the imprint of a human Knee. Tradition says St Patrick Knelt on this stone and his Knee left the imprint. Every year on Garland Sunday thousands flock to this spot, to perform stations. The three stations can be performed after each other although some people do one on the Sunday before or after and two on Garland Sunday

which to baptise them he discovered there was none available.
Raising his staff he struck a rock which was nearly and at one a fountain of water gushed up and formed- three wells. Hence the name Fuarán - a spring. With this Heavenly aid he baptised the people. Setting to work he established a church and monastery and when compelled by force of his duties to leave the place he left. St Ceitheach to take up duty. Our school is named after him. The three wells formed by the fountain are still intact and never dry while a stream of water flows from them. On the right hand side of the first well is a hawthorn bush

on which he afterwards spent a Lenten Season.
According to this Confessions he at once fell in love with the spol. These are his words "Oran that I love, and that loves me". In his mind's eye he could form a picture of what it would look like when a Church a Monastery would be established there. Hearing of the stranger in their midst crowds flocked to see and hear him, and at once he explained the object of his mission. They listened equally to his teaching, and were anxious to be received into the Church. Looking round for water with

One of the most famous of Holy Wells in the County Roscommon, and the Holy Well of this district is Oran. Our Parish is named aflerí et.
The village and hill of Oran occupy a splendid position on the Roscommon- Castlerea road. About six miles from the town of Roscommon and eight from Castlerea is its exact location. In the fifth century when St Patrick was travelling through the province preaching and teaching the True Faith to the people he came to Oran. Standing on the summit of the hill he gazed on the surrounding countryside while in the far distance he could se the peak of Croagh Patrick- the mountain

Blessed Wells
Great number of boys in the parish are called after him. The 29th October is observed as a holiday in the parish and people go to the Blessed Well in Corker in Kiltartan where the saint was born and perform rounds there on that day. Nobody works in the parish and people from neighbouring parishes who came in were punished by their horse refusing to work and sometimes dying.

road has a story connected with it.
One day a child of about six years was playing near the well and fell in. Soon afterwards his mother missed him and went in search and found him head downwards in the water. She drew him out expecting him to be dead and to her great joy nothing had happened to him. He told his mother that an old man with a whisker was in the well and kept the water away from him. The saint ministered to the spiritual needs of the people and became bishop of the diocese. There is a ell in Gortnakella called St Colman's well where eyes are cured and another in Caherglassaun. He is buried outside the church in Kilmacduagh cemetry. The churches in the parish and Town Hall in Gort are called after him. Rounds are performed in Kilmacduagh on Garland Sunday and on Monday and Thursdays at the

St Colman is our patron saint. His church (in ruins) remains at Kilmacduagh together with a round tower and in all seven churches.
There are several Blessed Wells in the district called after him. One of these on which the old grand jury of Galway built the county

are to be said are Our Father and three Hail Marys.

certain stones. There is a big stone there the shape of a cross and ti is there your begin. You may say any prayers you wish. You then come to there altar, and you will see seven stones there. You bless yourself seven times with the stones. You finish up at the cross again and you have to pray for the soul of Nell French. The visiting time is from the first Sunday in July to the fifteenth of August.
There is also another well in Cregg called Tobar na Lám. People go there to get their bones cured and some people sleep there for two or three nights. The well is situated about a quarter of a mile from the main road between Gort and Ennis. Several people were cured there. A man from Kilmacduagh had a very bad leg. The doctors had given up all hopes of him. He performed the rounds at Tobar na lám and after he had the third round done he was perfectly cured. There is another well situated outside Ennis. It is called St John's Well, and will cure any disease. The rounds are done by going round the well six times and twice round the bush. The prayers that

There is a blessed well in the boundary between Clare and Galway in the townland of Gort na Kella. It is called St Colman's Well. It is a well for eyes. The rounds are performed there two Mondays and a Thursday or two Thursdays and a Monday. If you performed there it would cure your eyes no matter what would be wrong with them but you must have the faith. The rounds are done by beginning outside in the road and saying Our Father and ten Hail Marys. They go around the well three times and then kneel at the well. They say the same prayers there. They then go round closer to the well three times more. You come back again and finish up at a big stone in which there is an image of a cross.
There is also another blessed well in Tubber Co Galway. It is called Tobar na Dónnaigh. There are no special diseases cured there. You are supposed to do then rounds by going round and kneeling on

dishes came on is called "the road of the dishes.
When the people of his parish found out that he was so holy they brought him back again and he was made bishop over the parish of Kilmacduagh. He built seven churches there but only the ruins are to be seen now. There are several blessed wells called after him. Thee is on in Kiltartan, one in Kilmacduagh and one in Gort na Coille. The people do rounds at the wells and at his grave on Garland Sunday. St Colman's Day is kept a holiday in this parish. It is said that on St Colman's Day a priest and his driver were coming to say mass at Tiernevan and a man was making a cock of hay and the priest said, " That man has his hay saved but he will never use it. Nothing ever eat the hay for him.

St Colman had a place in Gort and another in Kinvara at this time. On Easter Sunday he made a big feast at Kinvara and invited all his friends except St Colman. This vexed him and he prayed to God for help. So just when all was ready at the palace and the dishes of the food on the table, the dishes and forks and knives arose and went through the palace windows and went through the air until they reached the place where St Colman was. Then they lodged on the ground and St Colman and the mass server sat down to eat but just then they saw Guaire and his army coming on their horses. The mass server did not know what to do but St Colman told him not to mind. He prayed to God a second time and the horses hoofs were stuck to the rocks and they could not move. Then they both eat enough and then the saint prayed to let the horses free so Guaire and his army came and begged St Colman ------.
The tracks of the horses hoofs and dishes and forks and knives are to be seen there still. The road on which the

St Colman is traditionally connected with this district. He was born in Kiltartan in the 6th century. Duac was his father's name and Reanac was his mothers name. He was very holy and he went to school to Aran studying for the priesthood.
When he was ordained he came back again to Kiltartan but he did not like living among the people so he took a mass server with him and went down to the Burren mountains. They built a little timber house to sleep in. They had three little companions a cock, a mouse and a fly. The cock crew every hour to tell them the time. When St Colman used be asleep the mouse used run over his face to waken him and the fly used run along under the line when the saint used be reading because he had bad sight. St Colman and the mass server spent the lent on the mountain praying and fasting. King Guaire who was a relation of

St Coman had a place in Gort and another in Kinvara at this time. On Easter Sunday he made a big feast at Kinvara and invited all his friends except St Colman. This vexed him and he prayed to God for help. So just when all was ready at the palace and the dishes of the food on the table, the dishes and forks and knives arose and went through the palace windows and went through the air until they reached the place where St Colman was. Then they lodged on the ground and St Colman and the mass server sat down to eat but just then they saw Guaire and his army coming on their horses. The mass server did not know what to do but St Colman told him not to mind. He prayed to God a second time and the horses hoofs were stuck to the rocks and they could not move. Then they both eat enough and then the saint prayed to let the horses free so Guaire and his army came and begged St Colman ------.
The tracks of the horses hoofs and dishes and forks and knives are to be seen there still. The road on which the

St Colman is traditionally connected with this district. He was born in Kiltartan in the 6th century. Duac was his father's name and Reanac was his mothers name. He was very holy and he went to school to Aran studying for the priesthood.
When he was ordained he came back again to Kiltartan but he did not like living among the people so he took a mass seven with him and went down to the Burren mountains. They built a little timber house to sleep in. They had three little companions a cock, a mouse and a fly. The cock crew every hour to tell them the time. When St Colman used be asleep the mouse used run over his face to waken him and the fly used run along under the line when the saint used be reading because he had bad sight. St Colman and the mass seven spent the lent on the mountain praying and fasting. King Guaire who was a relation of

one and was seem above the surface of the water many times. The well never runs dry no matter how hot the weather may be. A certain man tried to empty it once but did not succeed in doing so.
People bring some of this water with them when they are going home. It is supposed to cure many diseases. They also leave offerings at the well.

There are a lot of blessed wells in this parish which are dedicated to Saint Coleman. There is one in Kiltartan where he was baptized It is situated on the right side of the Gort-Galway road. This well can cure sore eyes or sore feet and if a person slept overnight there they would get cured. The person would have to have a lighted candle near the well while he would be sleeping there.
The people pay visits to this well on the feast day of St Colman and they say the rosary there. There is another well in Kilmacduagh which is called St Colman's well also. It is situated about 25 yards from the Clare border. It is said that when St Colman knelt and prayed in this place a well sprung up. The well is not deep and it's waters are beautiful and cool. This water can never be (spoiled) boiled. It was frequently tried by many persons but everybody failed. There was a brown fish in this well

day and washed his eye in the well. He was not cured. Some man told him to come again on St Moling's day and bathe his eye in it and he would be cured. He came again on that day and did as he was told and after three days his sight was restored.
On the Pattern day in St Mullins many people drink the water. Some bring bottles home with them and any person who has any ailment and drinks it nine mornings and says some prayers may be cured.

There is but one holy well St Moling's well in this parish. It got its name from St Moling. The 17th June is St Moling's day. It was the custom long ago to visit the well on that day and do the pilgrimage but very few people visit it on that day now. A man from Kilkenny who was blind of one eye came some

following interesting story of the child's birth:
Long, long ago, two holy men, one blind, the other lame dreamt that they would be cured of their ailments at a place called Corker. They travelled by night and they were as far as Labane at the break of day; and that is how Labane (lá Bán) got its name. When they came as far as Corker they heard a child crying and they went over to where the child was crying. The impatient mother told them to pull a tuft of rushes. They did what they were told and the water splashed into the eyes of the blind man and he was cured. The lame man bathed his leg in the waters and he was also cured. Then the future saint was baptized.

following interesting story of the child's birth:
Long, long ago, two holy men, one blind, the other lame dreamt that they would be cured of three ailments at a place called Corker. They travelled by night and they were as far as Labane at the break of day; and that is how Labane (lá Bán) got its name. When they came as far as Corker they heard a child crying and they went over to where the child was crying. The impatient mother told them to pull a tuft of rushes. They did what they were told and the water splashed into the eyes of the blind man and he was cured. The lame man bathed his leg in the waters and he was also cured. Then the future saint was baptized.

St Mac Duagh is the name by which the patron saint of our parish was known to the old people of the district. To the younger generation he is known and venerated under the name of St Colman. His birthplace is only a quarter of a mile from our school.
Birth. It seems there was some prophecy regarding the saint's birth which excited the jealousy of the King of Connacht, then living at Kinvarra. As the future saint was himself the descendant of Kings perhaps the provincial king feared him as a rival for the throne of Connacht. Any way he intended to get rid of him. Like a second herod he sent his soldiers in pursuit of Rinagh, the mother of our holy patron. They overtook her near the chapel in Kiltartan, and tying a heavy stone around her neck cast her into the deepest hole of the Kiltartan River. "Dia linn" shouted the holy woman, and even since the hole is known as "Poll Dia Linn". (Thomas McNevin. Glenbrack Gort) She was preserved from drowning by a miracle, and the grand-mother of one of our pupils tells the

Long, long ago there was an old man living near a wood so my mother told me. Every day he used go hunting in the wood. One day while he was following a rabbit he fell and injured his eyes so badly that ever afterwards he was blind.
That night he had a vision. He saw an angle holding a strip of paper and written on it were . "Go to Corker and you will get your reward". He got up at once and journeyed towards Corker as he was coming near the well be heard two birds fighting and he went towards them. He had not gone far however when he slipped into the well and the water dashing upon his eyes he was cured.

Long, long ago there was an old man living near a wood so my mother told me. Every day he used go hunting in the wood. One day while he was following a rabbit he fell and injured his eyes so badly that ever afterwards he was blind.
The night he had a vision. He saw an angle holding a strip of paper and written on it were . "Go to Corker and you will get your reward". He got up at once and journeyed towards Corker as he was coming near the well be heard two birds fighting and he went towards them. He had not gone far however when he slipped into the well and the water dashing upon his eyes he was cured.

The numbers from (1) to (7) show the order in which the "rounds" are done. The prayers to be said at each "round" are to be found on the opposite page.

a few paces away is a heap of stones marked by a small cross where it is supposed St Colman was born. The pilgrim does the circuit of this three times repeating one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria at each round.
East of this is a large stone where St Colman's mother is supposed to have rested when she felt tired. The pilgrims go round this stone three times, repeating as before one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria. The rounds are finished by a visit to the well where prayers are said on the sport where St Colman was baptized. Usually a bottle of the well water is brought home and rubbed to sore eyes and through the prayers of St Colman these are very often cured.

St Colman's well is situated in a little village called Corker, in the Parish of Kiltartan.
This holy well is surrounded by a little house, surmounted by a small cross. In the middle of this house is the well, and on many old trees around the well which are supposed to be holy and about thirty feet from the well, is a small cross which marks where St. Colman was born. The "rounds" are done on his feast day, which is the 29th of October and the people of Kiltartan make a holiday of its always. When the people go to the well the first thing they do is to go into the house where the well is and kneel down and pray. After some time they go out and begin to do the "rounds". They walk round the well seven times repeating each time Our Father, One Hail Mary and one Gloria. Then they make the circuit of the limestone cross near the well five times, repeating at each round one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria. A short distance north east of the well are two trees which the people call blessed trees. The pilgrims go round those trees three times saying one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria

St Colman is the Saint which is traditionally connected with this district. He was born in Kiltartan about the sixth century. His mother's name was Reenach and his father's name was Duagh. He was baptized in Kiltartan and there is a well there which is dedicated for his honour. The people pay visits to that well on St Colman's feast day and if a person slept overnight there that person would get cured of sore eyes.
St Colman used walk down to Glein every (every) night and sleep in the place which is known as "St Colman's bed". Once upon a time he went away to the Burren mountain to devote his time to the service of God. He took with him a little boy to serve mass for him. They lived on one meal a day and at that meal they only ate watercress and a little wheaten bread. On Easter Sunday he said to the saint that he would like to go to Guaire's place

St Colman is the Saint which is traditionally connected with this district. he was born in Kiltartan about the sixth century. His mother's name was Reenach and his father's name was Duagh. He was baptized in Kiltartan and there is a well there which is dedicated for his honour. The people pay visits to that well on St Colman's feast day and if a person slept overnight there that person would get cured of sore eyes.
St Colman used walk down to Glein every (every) night and sleep in the place which is known as "St Colman's bed". Once upon a time he went away to the Burren mountain to devote his time to the service of God. He took with him a little boy to serve mass for him. They lived on one meal a day and at that meal they only ate watercress and a little wheaten bread. On Easter Sunday he said to the saint that he would like to go to Guaire's place

There is only one Holy Well around this place, and it is not considered such to-day. In olden times people used visit it, but no one goes near it now. It is in William Cummane's land, and it is called " Tobaireen na Punch". It is up on the top of a hill.

running from under the flag down to where the well is situated now. There is also a grave yard at the back of the well, where children were buried long ago, who died of a plague. There are several marks and stones to be seen still there. The grave yard is of a circular shape, and is higher than the rest of the field. There is a big flag between it and the original well, and one could hardly standing on it, because it is always slippery.
Bridie O'Donovan, Tubrid, Shanagolden, Co Limerick.

Close by "Manix's Folly" in Lissatotan, Shanagolden, is a well called "Cooley's Well" and it is said that people paid rounds there formerly, and its waters are still used to cure a bad stomach.
John O Farrell. Gragure, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.

for water through the passage so as no one would see them.
Tradition says, that on many of St. Kieran's frequent visits to his foster mother St. Ita of Killeedy from Cloum Mac Noise on the Shannon, he often remained to rest at the monastery of Clounough which means "the Field of the Steeds" John O Farrell. Gragure, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick.

There is a holy well in Tubrid about a quarter of a mile South of Nutgrove school, and it is called after St. Bridget, and it is said that a woman washed clothes in the well, and it removed about forty yards. one can see where the well was formarly. There is a big flag there, and a drain

again.

were there, for he would be knocked down, as he was a cripple, so he went home and got the water and carried it down to the well. He did not go alone, but when he was nearly as far as The Holy Well he told the person who accompanied him to stay there and that he would be able to go the rest of the way himself. When he was putting back the water the figure was there before him, and it said to him not to put back the water into the well, but to throw it outside the well. The figure went away, and the crippled man began to pay a round, and after a few minutes he was cured. So after he never carried water from the well

On another day a man carried in some water to boil, for tea. He has a well in his yard, but to see would it boil he put the well-water down, but it was no use. The man wasent sick atall, but after a few days he was a cripple. He threw the water he had brought from the well into a pot. It was around the fifteenth of August when he was paying rounds, and all the people were there. When he had finished his round he saw a statue inside in the Well and it said to him, to put back the water he carried out of it that night. It was late in the evening, for he could not go down when all the people

of cloth would be there when they go again. Some people leave flowers, holy pictures, rosary beads, and other holy things at the well.
A long time ago, a woman washed clothes in the well for a few days. It sprung up in another place, and a few days after when the woman came down to the well again with more clothes, she heard a voice saying to ho home or if she came down with them, and began to wash them into the well again that she would not go home alive. She did not go home until she hear it the third time. There she turned back home. Some people say that the voice was the fish, and that fish there yet.

There is a well in our parish St Owen's well is the name of it. Very often people pay rounds before a feast, to get cured. There is a little fish in the Well and if the people see it, they will get there cure, but they hardly ever see it.
People carry home some water to drink when they are sick and it cures their disease. They also wash sores with it, but if the people do not believe in the water, it will have no effect. Near the Holy Well there is a bush, and people put something on it for a token, usually a piece of cloth. They wish to see if the piece

There is no tree around the well in Barrigone. There is a tree around the well in Knockpatrick. It is a Blackthorn tree. It is said that people used to wash their clothes in the well at Barrigone long ago. It is said also that peoples sight has been cured.
There is a story told about the well in Knockpatrick. Hundreds of years ago, it is said that Saint Patrick visited Knockpatrick. It is said that he lost his prayer book, and it is said that a Raven found it.

It is said, that some men were working near Barrigone well, and they tampered with it in some way. they worked away, and they didn't notice what they were doing, but after a while the well moved of its own accord, and it is said that, that is where it is now.

There is an old well at the foot of Knockpatrick hill, called the well of the black cat.
It is said that a black cat appears there every November eve. Anyone seeing this cat will get what they wish for.

Knockpatrick is about two miles distant from Foynes. Every year on the 17th of March. It is so called because it was from that hill Saint Patrick blessed Cork and Kerry. The well was one down inside the gate but it was said that a woman washed clothes in it and the next morning the well was shifted up to where it now stands to-day.

Barrigone Well is a holy well. It was removed, because a woman washed clothes in it. It is said that nobody should wash clothes in a holy well. The well was about a half mile away from where it is now. On the 15th of August people visit the holy well and pay rounds.

A Woman went to Borrigone Well for to be cured while she was praying she saw a fish floating around in the Water. They do not know for certain whether the fish spoke to her or not. Some people say the Saint came in the form of a great fish. That woman went home from the Well quite cured of her sickness.

Once upon a time the people in Knockpatrick were killing a bull. When the bull was dead they went down to the well for to wash their hands. The Well at that time was inside the gate next morning the well was about half mile up in the hill.
People visit it every year on the 17th of March the Feast day of Saint Patrick.

neighbouring field, and here the well has remained. It is well kept, and is shaded by an old oak tree. The people who visit the well usually leave some token after them and consequently the bushes and the ground all round the well are rather rudely decorated with bits of rags, broken bits of religious articles, medals, broken bits of ware, and small coins.

has to go around the well seven times, and during each round to say an Our Father and three Hail Marys and each time he arrives back at the well he must put a pebble into it. Of course he must have seven pebbles ready in his hand at the begginning of the "rounds". There is a story told about how this well changed its position one time. It was abused by a maid who lived with a parson in the Glebe. She was sent to the river to wash some clothes, but instead of doing as she was told she washed them in the holy well. Next morning the people were amazed to find that the well was not in its own place, but a new well had sprung up in a

There is only one holy well in this parish. It is situated about a hundred yards from Loughill churchyard. It is in a glen in Mr Hanley's farm. It is dedicated to St Colmóg, of whom very little is known. People say, however, that he was a holy hermit who kept a little church here, until the time of the Danish raids. People whose eyes are effected in anyway pay "rounds" at the well. They have no special days for visiting, but the old people say the "rounds" should be made before sunrise or after sunset.
The "rounds" are done in the following way:- One

touch those things because they apply these things to part effected and you might take the disease. A sgeac bush grows a few yards away the well. At this tree they leave handkerchiefs and pieces of cloth pray at this tree and at the holy cross they recite the Rosary. The well is surrounded by a concrete wall. The people around never use the water for household use except there is a shortage of water.

A holy well can be seen to the present day in Ballyknockan. It is called St Patrick's Well because it is there that St Patrick baptised the people he had converted when he was passing from Carlow to Ossory. The people have no fixed day for visiting it. They do not leave any relics behind them.
Another ancient holy well can be seen in the townland of Old Leighlin. It is called Molaise Well. it got its name from St Laserian or Molaise. It is remarkable for its cures. It is said that Mr Patrick Murphy Raheenwood was troubled with rheumatic pains. This night he went down to the well at twelve o'clock and he was on crutches. He bathed his legs in the water and was cured. He was able to walk without the aid of his crutches. Anyone who is effected with sore eyes, bathes his eyes in the water and it helps to take the soreness out of their eyes. Old people who are not able to attend go to the holy well and drink the water. The feast day is held on the 18th April annually. When the people come to the well they leave crosses, coins, crucifixes. Nobody should

The nearest holy well in the district is Lady Well in the parish of Ballyruskil. People visit it on the fifteenth of August. Rounds are performed, the Rosary and other prayers are said and the water is drunk by those who visit the well.
Once when the people in the district came short of water, they got some in the holy well but the water could not be boiled. No one is known to have been cured by the water of the well and no relics are left there. There is a bust growing over the well.

There is a holy well in Kilmacar in the parish of Conahy on Mr Healy's land. It was dedicated to Our Blessed Lady. On the 29th July every year people visited it, performed rounds and said prayers in honour of Our Blessed Lady.
Once when the people were visiting it a person spat in it. The priest stopped the pilgrimage and prayed that no water should ever enter it. This request was grant-ed and since that day the well is dry. There was a stone in this well and any person who was affected by any disease or was blind or lame would be cured by rubbing the stone to the affected part. A few years ago the stone was stolen and anyone who went to the well after was not cured.

There us an old story told about a well in a field belonged to Mr Fitzpatrick Tinnalinton Co Kilkenny. A man lived in the neighbourhood a short distance from cruachá na gcon he was defeated and he fled from the battle- field to his house and his ornament in a very deep well. The ornaments consists of gold and silver. No one has been lucky enough to find this well.

The Kilgeeve well is situated in a long graveyard two miles west of Croagh Patrick. People go there and do stations around the well. Tradition says that there is a trout in the well & whoever sees it while doing the stations well get any wish he makes. One day a man was doing the stations. He saw the trout & caught it he brought it home & put it on the frying pan. It is said that the trout gave three leaps and landed at the door. The trout was next seen in the well & people noticed it had a brown patch on its back when it had been burned on the pan.

well is, a great many boys are called Kilian.
Our church is St Kilian's church and there is a picture painted on the ceiling of the church of a bishop. The people believe it is a picture of St Kilian.

In Cloughbally beg, a pretty well, shaded by hawthorn bushes, is believed to be a holy well - in fact, St Kilian's well. No one knows the origin of this well.
Perhaps in its vicinity, St. Kilian was born. We do not know but on each 8th July, many people visit the well and pray around the picturesque spot. It is said that hundreds of years ago, huge pilgrimages visited the well on that date but that during the Penal days abuses crept in. It was often used as a venue fro political meeting and, naturally, the place of prayer was often turned into a place of strife. At any rate, the pilgrimages to it were suspended by the parish priest of Mullagh at the time Rev Felix Mc Cabe (1794-1816). After the date of the Emancipation, people resumed the devotions, on a small scale, and still go there, but not in large numbers. Around the district in which the

In Cloughbally beg, a pretty well, shaded by hawthorn bushes, is believed to be a holy well - in fact, St Kilian's well -- one knows the origin of this well.
Perhaps in its vicinity, St. Kilian was born. We do not know but on each 8th July, many people visit the well and pray around the picturesque spot. It is said that hundreds of years ago, huge pilgrimages visited the well on that date but that during the Penal days abuses crept in. It was often used as a venue fro political meeting and, naturally, the place of prayer was often turned into a place of strife. At any rate, the pilgrimages to it were suspended by the parish priest of Mullagh at the time Rev Felix Mc Cabe (1794-1816). After the date of the Emancipation, people resumed the devotions, on a small scale, and still go there, but not in large numbers. Around the district in which the

cave is very large one having a flat top on it. There are passages cut underground from his cave in Lough Crew to a cave in McDonnell's field. It is said that these passages were made for people to hide and escape in long ago.
There is another field not far from my house belonging to Michael Connell in which there is a lone bush growing. Everyone is afraid to cut this bush as they say if anyone cut it the banshee would be crying around their houses at night and misfortune is supposed to befall them.

There are few places in Ireland that has not come ancient caves connected with them. In my opinion I think my townland is most historic place in Co. Meath.
In the ancient churchyard in Kieran Kells there are some magnificent stone - crosses. Some of our great saints of long ago St. Kieran, and St Columcille used to debate as to which of them had the largest head-stones. St Columcille who resided in Kells came one night and stole one of St Kieran's beautiful crosses, and making a short cut through the river he dropped a portion of it which still remains in the river at the back of mick Tighe's house. The other part which is known as the cross of Kells is erected at Cooney's Kells corner for anyone to see with three concrete steps around it. The saints of long ago must have been very strong as this cross is several tons weight. There are, three more of them in Kieran at the present time. There is one of them which is very remarkable having the arm shot off it by an old English soldier whom I suppose has reaped the benefit of it since. About six miles from my house there is a great big cave in the town land of Lough Crew. Long ago two men were trying to open it with a crow-bar but as they were doing so the bar fell out of their hands and they could hear it going down for quite awhile. This

people used to visit it. They made stations and when finished used tie a bit of cloth on the bush over the Well.

There are no Holy Wells in Moynalty parish. There is one well in Ciaran, Carnaross, another at Shancor Kilmanamwood and one at Ardmagh. The well in Ciaran is called after St. Ciaran. Its patron day is held on the first Sunday in August. Several are said to be cured of Toothache. Some drink the water and more rub the part affected. The well at Shancor is called St. Patrick's Well. Its patron day is on the same day at St Ciaran's. The well is beside a large rock. St Patrick is supposed to have said Mass on this rock hundreds of years ago. There is a very nice alter erected near the rock. The Well at Ardamagh is called St. John's Well and its Patron day is on the 21st of June. Long ago

cured of their diseases at this well. About fifty years ago the pilgrims used to tie a piece of cloth on a bush beside the well but the bush is not there now. They leave their relics beside the well nowadays.

There are two holy wells in this parish and there is another in the parish of Carnaross. One of these wells is situated in the townland of Ardamagh and about three miles from Moynalty. Another is situated in the town-land of Cherrymount about two miles from Moynalty. The holy well that is in Carnaross is called St Ciarans well and is about four miles from Moynalty. A great number of people go to this well on the first Sunday in August to get cured of their diseases. The rosary is recited beside the well and the people drink some of the water. Some people bring the water to their homes in bottles. A trout is said to come out at midnight on the night before the first midnight on the night before the first Sunday of August. Alot of people go on that night to see the fish. There is a story told of a man who caught the trout and put it on a pan to fry but it jumped off the pan and went back to the well again. Some people have been

There is a tomb-stone in Emly grave yard. It is know as St. Ailbe's Cross. It is a Celtic cross. It is a very ancient cross. It is worn away now. It is made of granite stone. It is situated in the south western part of the graveyard. There is no stone in the graveyard like it.
The stone is four feet eight inches high and one foot ten inches wide. Peopl say that more than half of it exists under the ground. There is no writing and no carving on it now. The weather has worn it away from time to time. St Ailbe is buried to the west of the stone. There was a monastery opposite the stone but it does not exist now. The Sign of the Cross is made by the people on it with three stones which are laid on top of it. Long ago the people used swear by the Holy Stone of Emly. Every time people respect it as they pass it by carving a cross on it with stones. When a person has a pain in his back he would get it cured by putting his back against the stone and praying to St Ailbe. When a person has no pain in his back and to do the same it would strengthen his back.

There are five holy wells in this parish. One of them is very well known. The four others are but very little known. The names of some of them are forgotten.
St, Ailbe's well is situated in the corner of the graveyard. It is a very large well. It is a very deep well. It is said that St, Ailbe jumped from the of the hill of Knockcarron to where the well stands now and that it is what caused the well to be there. People go round the well on the 12th of September. Emly, Every time they go round it they bless themselves and say the rosary. It is said that a man with a bundle of straw was tired and seated himself on the side of the well. As he was sitting down he fall into the well. When he fell in the water overflowed and he swan out of the water. People take the water from the well to drink. When St Ailbe was young he was sent into a garden to keep birds off of it and since that people go to the well, and take water from it and sprinkle it on the corn to keep the birds away.

In this parish are two holy wells known as St. Berriherts' and St. Pecaun's. St. Berriherts' well is in the townland of Ardane, parish of Kilmoyler and the barony of Clanwilliam. About two hundred yards west of the well is a disused graveyard know as St. Berrihert's Kyle. Both of them lie close to the northern base of the Galtee mountains. The saint is commermorated on the 18th February

they came back again cured as good as ever. The blind man could see and the deaf man could hear, as good as ever, and from that day until this they are going to it, and coming back cured, ans so it is called the "Well of Jesus"
Told by: Mr M Duggan (60), Ballydrehid, Cahir, Co. Tipperary Written by: John Duggan, Ballydrehid N.S., Cahir, Co. Tipperary

When St. Patrick was going to Cahir he usually went by

and church. Overhanging the well is a thorn bush. Tradition is that its water cannot be boiled or heated or used to boil anything One day somebody used the water to boil potatoes and the water never boiled. Some offering is made when a person visits the church, such as medals or crosses or flowers.
Told by: MR. P. Nugent (50), Ballydrehid, Cahir, Co. Tipperary Written by: Margaret Nugent, Ballydrehid N.S., Cahir, Co. Tipperary

Our Holy Wells
There is one holy well in this district called St. Pecaun's Well. It is in a field owned by Mr. Burke beside the Great Southern Railway in Toureen, parish of Kilmoyler and the barony of Clanwilliam. People go there to do their 'rounds' from the 1st of August to the 9th of August. It is said if a girl goes there and does the rounds

There is one holy well in this district.
People usually visit it on saints days. After people say their prayers they wash their hands and face and pick up three pebbles. There is an image at the well; people say that it was in Cahir abbey and a man named Kennedy dug it up and brought it to his house. Then he died and people say that he because he dug it up. There is a statue in a wire safe near the well people put money in it.

visit the well and make rounds

St Seadna is the saint traditionally connected with this district. He was bishop of what formerly known at the diocese of "Cluain beag" lying between Sliab na Much and the Galtees. An old ruined church still standing in the Clonbeg graveyard was supposed to be built and used by the saint.
On one occasion he was imprisoned at Clonmel and it being " Patron Day" at Clonbeg or Coach Road, the saint prayed hard for his release on this day. To his very great surprise at some hour of the day or night the cell door is flung open and he walked out a free man. no sight of his jailers were to be seen. He walked to Clonbeg a distance of almost 20 miles and was in time for the patron (pattern). It is not known where he was buried but it is almost certain it must be in the graveyard where a well (dealt with elsewhere) in his honour still exists. The people around here pray to him no special form of prayer being used. The patron day is on July 20th and great numbers

made their rounds and took away with them some of the water and a spray of the whitethorn bush that is growing over the well. They went to war and though several of their comrades were shot down or died of cholera then raging, they fought right through it and returned safely home. Near the well there lived a very black bigoted Protestant named William Brennan. he was a great fisherman and regularly kept a fresh trout in this well. He had great respect for the saint and the well, although not being a Catholic. When dying he refused to see his own clergyman and asked for a priest. The priest came and received him into the church. he told the priest that St Sedna and the well were the cause of this conversion.

There is a holy well at the eastern end of Clonbeg graveyard. It is known as " St Seadna's Well". A protestant church stands in the centre of the cemetery and the ruins of an old church probably Catholic stand about 15 yards to the south east of the protestant church. Overhanging the well is an old whitethorn bush. The bush is usually draped with rags of various colours.
The annual patron is on July 20th. The well is frequented by many people, who say that in the water there is certain cure for eye trouble. When people visit it on the patron day " Rounds" are made. They walk three times round the graveyard remaining at well for a little time at end of each round. The Rosary is said once in each round and a decade at well on completion of each round. Some of the water is then taken and applied to the sore etc-a bottle or so of it being taken home for further use. When the Crimean War broke out four young men from this locality joined the English Army and were soon ordered to the front. Before leaving they paid a visit to the well

In the grave yard attached to the Protestant Church in Clonbeg a short distance from the school there is a holy well. They call it St Shean's well. The pattern falls on the 21st of July. Only very few give their rounds there now. Up to about 50 or 60 years ago crowds used to come there during the pattern. On the pattern day three rounds were sufficient but on the other nine days it was necessary to give nine rounds. The rounds consisted of the saying of the beads while walking round the path in the graveyard five pater & aves at the well on return. The water was supposed to be a cure for blindness & lameness. Sure sign of being cured was to see the trout in the well. Several claim to have seen the trout & to have gained their request.
About 50 years a go the pattern was closed by the Parish Priest Fr McCormack because of the faction fights which occured there but there are still a few aged people in the district who still carry on the practice. They claim to have been cured in their youth & still carry on in thanks giving.

In the grave yard attached to the Protestant Church in Clonbeg a short distance from the school there is a holy well. They call it St Shean's well. The pattern falls on the 21st of July. Only very few give their rounds there now. Up to about 50 or 60 years ago crowds used to come there during the pattern. On the pattern day three rounds were sufficient but on the other nine days it was necessary to give nine rounds. The rounds consisted of the saying of the beads while walking round the path in the graveyard five pater & aves at the well on return. The water was supposed to be a cure for blindness & lameness. -- save --gin of being lured was to see the trout in the well. Several claim to have seen the trout & to have gained their request.
About 50 years a go the pattern was closed by the Parish Priest Fr McCormack because of the faction fights which occured there but there are still a few aged people in the district who still carry on the practice. They claim to have been cured in their youth & still carry on in thanks giving.

stones which they dip in the water, and these they take away with them also

St Beraherths well is situated in the townland of Ardane and in the Parish of Bansha.
It is said that in ancient times, there were seven brothers saints, each of them lived in adjoining parishes, and one of them named St Beraherth lived where the well is. There was a church there at that time, but it has fallen to ruins, and only some of the stones remain now. The well is surrounded by huge birch trees and there is a tradition that any of the timber around it cannot be burned and that the water cannot be boiled. People used the water to cure diseases. The people of the locality observe the eighteenth of February as the pattern day of St Beraherth. They keep that day as they keep Sunday but there is no mass celebrated. They come and go around the well, three times and say certain prayers and take some water away with them. They also get

St Piocán was a brother of St Beraherth. St Piocán's well is surrounded by white-thorn bushes. The people of that district honour the first of August as the pattern day of St Piocán. Sports are held year on the first of August, and the people come and do there rounds. They leave a mug near the well for the people to drink the water. They say certain prayers and tie ribbons on the buses in remembrance of them. They used be old women with tents there selling sweets and cakes at the sports. Long ago the children of Tanker's-town school, and Ballydrehid got a half-day from school to go to the pattern every year.

St Piocán's well is situated in the townland of Tooren in the Parish of Bansha.

the eighteenth of February as the pattern day of St Beraherth. They keep that day just as they keep Sunday but there is no mass celebrated. People come and go around the well six times and say the Lord's prayer, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father while they are doing each round. They dip ribbons in the well and tie them on the bush. They also get stones which they dip in the water, and these they take away with them. Some people wash their face three times in it. A cup is left near the well for the people to drink the water. They take three sups of it, and say -- in the name of the Holy Ghost. Amen. They then go over to the cill and go around it five times saying the same prayers. It is said that in ancient times unbaptised children were buried in the cill. When the people are going away they take a bottle of water out of the well with them.

St Beraherth's well is situated in the town-land of Ardane and in the Parish of Bansha. It is said that in ancient times, there were seven brothers saints, each of them lived in adjoining parishes. One of them names St Beraherth lived where the well is. A church was there at that time but it has fallen to ruins, and only some of the stones remain to be seen. The well is surrounded by huge birch trees, and there is a tradition that any of the timber around it cannot be burned, and that the water cannot be boiled. People use the water cannot be boiled. People use the water to cure diseases. If you had a head a pain in you head to wash it three times in the well the pain would go away. The people of the locality observe

About two miles east of Tipperary town on the soutn of the rail-way, there is a holy well.
Many people go there when in trouble through sickness, do the rounds, and say prayers, and every person that does the rounds always leaves some little token (afer) after them. If you were to visit the well you would see- ribbons of every colour tied on the bush over the well, on the stones, blades, broken glass and china etc, etc. Many years ago, long before the railway was laid Tom and Mary, lived a few miles from Sunday's Well. Tom, a fine strapping young man. Mary a comely maid in with nut brown hair. They had a small bit of ground, and Mary fed the pigs and fowls, milked the cows, and was as happy as the day was long. In the summer times, Tome went out odd days (having) saving hay, cutting corn for hire which helped to tide them over the winter. One beautiful July morning Mary was out of bed by six o'clock, busy in the kitchen preparing Toms breakfast as he had a hard day before him. Ready to start, Mary walked to the paddock- gate with him, to let in the cows. Wishing him good luck, he went away whistling, little thinking trouble was so

kind- hearted. She often made butter. One day the Saint asked her for alms but she refused him although having some butter. When she went back her butter was turned into stone.
The old people say that if you throw a stone into the water and leave it, for a while then take it from the water, if there happens to be fire, the stone (--) is believe to stop it.

There are some holy wells in the district adjoining Bansha. One which is well known among the people of the district St Pekaun's well is situated by Tureen near Cahir. On the first of August every year the "Patern" of Peakaun is held. Numbers of pious people come from the surrounding districts to perform rounds (religous exercise) and to drink three sups of water from the well.
Pekaun's wells is situated under an old tree. A little distance from the well there is a white slab of stone, with a woman's (head) hand on it, there is a smaller stone on the larger one. The pilgrims who go to Pekaun's well make the sign of the cross with the small one over the larger one. The pilgrims then go into the graveyard and leave some offering after them such as a half penny a hairpin etc etc The old tradition goes:- In the neighbourhood of the place there lived a woman who was not

There is a well in the grave yard in Emly known as the "wart well". It is said to cure warts. The older people say it is there a long time. When you dip the wart in the well it will fall off in the course of a day or two.
It is on a stone which is situated on the south side of the grave yard. It is at the side of the path. It is twenty five yards from the south eastern corner of the grave yard, and it is five yards from the south wall. The well is very small. It is four inches in diameter and two and a half inches deep. It is nearly dry always. It would contain about a cup of water to fill the well to the brim. The stone in which is the well is seven inches above the ground in parts and two and a half inches on the side towards where the graves are.

into the fields about a 100 yards from the road.
There is another well in Gorteen. No one knows the name of it. It is filled up now.

There are five holy wells in this parish. There is only one of them well known. There are four others but very little known. Their names are forgotten, except two of them.
St Ailbes well is at the corner of the grave yard. It is a very large well. It is said that Saint Ailbe jumped from the hill of Knockcarron to the spot where the well is now. People go around the well the 12th September. They say the rosary also. It is said that a man with a bundle of straw sat in the verge of the well and fell in. People say that the water sprang up and the man was put standing on his legs on the ground. It is said also that when Saint Ailbe was young that he was put in a garden to keep away the birds. People take home the water and sprinkle it on their gardens because St Ailbe did that with the well water. There is another holy well behind the old church. It is under a rock. The owner of the land closed it, because it was dangerous to cattle. It is called Tobar Pheadair. People say that there is an underground passage from that well to the hill of Knockcarron. There is a well near Ballyvistea bridge a mile from Emly. It is called Tobar na Cille. The field that the well is in is called Gort na Cille. People say that there is a cure in the water before dawn. You should not let anyone see you taking it. There is a well in Tulla. It is said that the well was near the roadside. People say that a woman washed a child in the well. It is said that the well moved

St. Conlan's Well is situated about four miles from Nenagh. It is in the townland and parish of Youghalarra. It is called after Saint Conlan who was living on the banks of the Shannon, near Garry-kennedy. People go to it on the 22nd July which is his feast day and they bring home holy water with them. St. Conlan's road is called after him, that is the Nenagh - Portroe road.
St. John's well is situated about one mile from Nenagh and on Brookwatson lands. It is called after St. John, and the print of his foot is still to be seen on a stone there. The people of the town still

of the glen, and is in the shape of a horse shoe, and on the wooded hill close by is still to be seen the ruins of an old chapel. When the old well was being cleared out, some portions of the stones which formed the altar in the church were discovered at the bottom.

said that while St. Patrick was passing through his looks fell into the well and he cursed them. Once when Cromwell and his soldiers were marching from Cahir. St Patricks Well. There was a cross on the door and the sun was shining on the cross. One of the soldiers fired at the cross and the same time he was struck blind. The water runs in the two spouts under the passage which leads to the church. Another story tell us that St. Patrick blessed the River Suir also. The water which flows from the well forms into a beautiful lake above the village of Marlfield on its course to the River Suir. It is said that St. Patrick crossed the river Tar at Clogheen, and the Suir at Ardfinnan, and so came to this place now known as St. Patricks Well. During the centuries that have passed since St. Patrick rested there, it has been a favourite spot with the people, especially on St. Patrick's Day. The spring rises at the foot of a tree in the centre

Patrick discovered what had happened he was very troubled and healed the wound but he was at the same time pleased with the kings faith. On the 17th. of March a procession is held in honour of St. Patrick. It is said while he was preaching the staff he had stick in the ground and a well spring up from the hole he had made. We are told that the seed St Patrick sowed yielded fruit one hundred fold. There is and old celtic cross in the middle of the well. It has been celebrated from many wonderful cures by the waters which are clear and sparkling. St Patricks Well is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by very old trees. The walls of the chapel are covered with ivy. There was a graveyard there long ago but the water flowing from the well covered it. Some years ago a boy went there on crutches and prayed and he was able to walk home leaving the crutches behind him and for many years after they were seen hanging over the well. It is

St Patricks Well is situated in Marlfield Village. The people always wear shamrock on St Patricks Day in honour of St Patrick. There was a chapel in St. Patricks Well and during the war Cromwell knocked it down. A great number of people got their sight back in St. Patricks Well. There was also a great number of cripples cured there. Some years ago three men went out to St. Patrick's Well. They went into the church and two men knelt and prayed and the other man laughed at them. The man threw one man's dog into the well and ever after the man used to bark every word he said. It was at St. Patrick's Well that St. Patrick baptized the king of Munster. It is said that while St. Patrick was baptizing the king he put the point of his staff through the kings foot by accident. The king thinking that it was in the ceremony remained silent. When St.

bands with them the people wear shamrocks and the small children wear badges with the Shamrock.

There is a well near Clonmel and its called St Patrick's well. It is situated a good distance out from the town. How it got its name was, that St Patrick first preached there. Many invalids were cured there, by washing themselves in the water.
When St Patrick's day comes, hundreds of people go to the well and

the people have great faith in the water of the well. People very often make Novenas there and Saint Patrick's day the 17 the March, there is a public procession from the town to the well.

Saint Patrick's well is situated about one mile outside Clonmel. It is one of the most beautiful spots in Co Tipperary and it is said that St Patrick preached to the people in olden days from spot where now remains the ruins of a Catholic church. The well is quiet near the old church and

to the well and prayed there. It is said that it was on account of the prayer of some person that the well sprang up again. A legend tells us that the well began to flow again. On the eve of St Brigid's day people used put a piece of ribbon of a bush and come for the ribbon the day after. It is said that it would cure diseases.

About a quarter of a mile outside the suburbs of Clonmel there is a well known as St Brigid's well. Long ago the people of the surrounding district used to come to the well and wash their clothes there and bring water home for the used of the house. After a while the well dried up. The people from Old Bridge then came

There was a Sally tree there long ago but it fell down with age and there was another planted but the roots of the old one are still around the well.

that time and one of them went out every Sunday in turns ad crowds of people followed them.
A number of cures were performed there. The last cure was about forty on fifty years ago when a young boy left his crutch at the well after being cured. People were cured from sore eyes and sore legs etc. Invalids generally drank the well-water and they held the affected part under the spouts to be cured.

There are two holy wells in this parish namely St Patrick's Well and St Brigid's Well.
St. Patricks well is situated two miles and St. Brigid's a quarter of a mile outside Clonmel. Long ago people visited the wells every day and did pilgrimages there, but very few visit them now. There were two brass bands in Clonmel at

Heaven.

There are many Holy wells in Ireland noted for their fame. These Holy wells are held in great esteem by the people of the sourounding County, who on certain daus devoted to the patron Saint of the well make pilgrimages and perform rounds in order to obtain the cure of disease or any other benefit from

money, for the upkeep of the old church which stands beside the well. People, especially those who are not in good health make pilgrimages to the well at all time of the year. There are crutches hanging in the church which belong to some boy who was cured years ago.

The only well I know of in this parish is St Patrick's Well, which is situated about two miles outside the town. Once every year on St Patrick's day, the people of the town and surrounding districts pay a special visit to the well. They say prayers and drink the water. They also leave offering of

so long ago a little crippled boy left his crutch behind him and walked away having been cured. People drink the water and very often are cured.

There is one holy well in Clonmel. It is called St. Patrick's well and it is situated about a mile from this town. Every year on the 17th March, crowds of people form a procession from the town to the well. There is the ruins of the little church nearby and people pray before a lovely picture of St Patrick. It is noted for its cures and not

water for cooking.

St Patick's well is situated on the Marlfield Road. St Brigid's well is situated on the Dungavan Road. There were many people cured at it. The Rag well is situated on the Dungarvan Road. The people hand rags on the tree near the well when they pass.
The Toberaheena is situated near the Marlfield Road. The people wash clothes in it every Friday, and they use the

well. He got of his horse and his pains were cured. Many other people were cured as well as him.

Once upon a time there was a poor man going around with another man named Fibs and the man said "What are those people doing around my land ? Fibs said "They are trying to get cured of pains " There was once a man who had pains. He was brought to Saint Patrick's

to St Brigid. There is an old hawthorn tree growing there and people visiting the well used to drink the water and hang a piece of rag on the tree. There were nice walks around the well and up along the glen but they are now all overgrown with weeds and neglected

deformed limbs and bathe them in the water and it is known that quiet a good many of them were cured. Even down to our own times it is a favourite resort especially on St Patrick's day and many remember the procession of thousands of citizens who follow the band the 17th March. There is an altar there which mass used to be said and there are many holy pictures and gifts left there.There is another holy well called Ragwell which is dedicated

St Patrick's well is situated in the townland of Innishlonagh and Parish of St Mary's Clonmel. It is still well kept in order. Pilgrims used to visit this holy well very frequently in gone days and drink the water and walk around the well. There were a good many people cured of weak eyes and
deafness and people used to bring children with

cans of water from it.

them in the same place and the boy was completely cured and had left his crutches behind at the well. Another cure which my mother told me was. There was once a girl who lived in Clonmel and she had a sister who was almost blind and she believed if the went to this well and made a Novena that she would be cured. So she did and went through the water on her knees every day for nine days, and on the ninth day she got back her sight.
There are many other cures from this well. None of these people would have been cured if they had not the faith. The water is used from domestic purposes by the people who live near the well. When people come to make Novenas at this well they carry away bottles and

around the well began to give way from the constance flowing of the water so it was cemented in around and shaped like a horse shoe.
There are great cures in the water of this well if the people have the faith. This is one which was told to me by an old woman who lives in Marlfield. About eight years ago there was a little crippled boy who lived in Cork. His mother dreamed of this well and she believed if she brought him to it he would be cured. Sp she brought him three times to the well, and on the third visit when his mother was bringing hime to the well it was on the 15th August which is the Feast of the Assumption, Mrs Prendergast was going to mass and she met them on the Marlfield road and when when was coming home she met

The Holy Well I know around this locality is St Patricks well. It is situated in a most beautiful valley about a half mile north from our school.
When St Patrick was passing through this valley on his way to Cashel he rested there and blessed the well hence St Patricks well. The water is constantly springing up from the ground in tiny bubbles like pearls at the foot of an old tree. The water flows out into two spouts and it is remarkable that the spouts become stronger every second year, and this water that flows from the well forms Marlfield Lake

them make an offering of money especially on St Patrick's day. Some throw it into the well and others throw it in-side the railings erected near the altar in the ruined church.

troops of Catholic Scots act as custodians.
St Patrick according to local tradition is supposed to have baptised people at the well. People of Clonmel and the district believe that there is a cure in the well water for sprains, pains, weak eye sight etc. Many cures have been reported and crutches were left there some years ago stuck in the ground at the well-side. Visitors to the well usually bring home a bottle of the water and many of

The only known well in out Parish (St Mary's) is St Paticks in the townland of Lock Tally. The land is owned by Mr Condon of Tobernaheena. Some time ago a committee of the parishioners looked, after the paths leading to the well and ruins of a Church on the same grounds. Now the committee have ceased to exist and local

chéile is nach geloisfeadh aoinne sea clogh an duine eile ag bualadh. Cuaidh Naomh Cailín go h-Iorrus Mór agus cuaidh Noamh Flainnín fo h-Iorrus Flonnáin. The rian a leabaidh ann, agus tátobar naomhtha a bhaineanns leis ann freisean. Teigheann na daoine are oilireacht go t-obar Naoimh Flainnín ar an 18ad la Mí na Nollag.
Deirtear nuair d'iarr Naomh Flainnín talamh ón tighearna talmhan chun Séipéal a dhéanam, tur theasbáin sé carraig mór amach i loch bó. Dubhairt an tighearna talmhan, "sin é an méid atá agan chun do shéipéal a déannamh. Ní brón ar Naomh Flainnín. Ceap sé nár fheilesmhnach carraig amuigh i loch chun séipéal a déanamh. Ghuibh sé ar Dhia cun cabhau a thabhairt dó agus cuir a chodhladh air. Nuair adhúisigh sé bfhéach sé thart timceall air. Ní raibh loch ná carraig le feicéal. In a n-ionaid bí seipéal breágh ann agus bhí an loch tirm. Sin, é and chaol a deirtear gur tógadh séipéal Naomh Flainnín.

over. An old tradition says that it is connected by an underground channel with Knockcarron.
The Friar's Well There is a holy well in Killengalline near Kilteely called the Friar's well. There was an ancient Abbey there long ago. Little is known of the Friar's well but a legend is told in connection with the Abbey. This legend will be related later. The Abbey was destroyed about the eight century. There is very little of it there now.

St Ailbe's Well
There is a well in the graveyard in Emly dedicated to St Ailbe. On the 12th September the people make their rounds there within the Octave. It is said that it cures sick people especially those suffering from deafness & Rheumatism. The prayers are five paters and Aves at the well. Then three Rosaries while walking around Chruchyard on the Feast day or within the Octave. After every Rosary a cross must be made on St Ailbe's gravestone with a stone left there for that purpose.Tobar na cille There is a holy well in Patrick O'Brien's land near the road. A hawthorn bush grows beside it. It cures vomiting and whooping cough. The old people around had great faith in its healing powers. Many of the present generation remember seeing the old people making their rounds. St Peter's well There is a well in Creagh's field. It is called St Peter's well. there is no water in it now and it was almost covered.

from rheumatism. The prayers that are five paters and aves then three Rosaries while walking around the churchyard on the Feast day or within Octave. On any other day nine Rosaries must be said. After every Rosary a cross must be made on St Ailbe's gravestone with a stone left there for that purpose

reached Cashel. It is related that the Bishops Ibar, Ciaran and Ailbe meet St Patrick at Cashel at the Court of King Aengus. St Patrick was King Aengus settled that St Ailbe should be Archbishop of Munster. It is said he lived in Connaught for a while and that an angel appeared and told him to go back to the cross of Emly and build a monastery and teach there.
St Ailbe returned to Emly and built his monastery " Imleach Inbhair" or the place beside the lake. There is no trace of the lake now, but it did exist up to about two hundred and fifty years ago. It was from time to time lessened but in 1717 it was drained by the industry of Robert Ryves Esq., Ailbe died in the early part of the sixth century and was buried at Emly. a very ancient cross of the traditional Celtic type with solid rings marked out by sunk panels mark his grave. It is said Ailbe loved hospitality He was not bit a false devotee There came not into a body of clay One more generous of food or raiment. There is a well in the graveyard dedicated to St Ailbe. One the 12th September the people make their rounds there within the Octave. It is said that it cures sick people especially those suffering

Our patron Saint is St Ailbe. We celebrate his feast on September the 12th.
Saint Ailbe's mother Sandit and father Olcnas lived with the Chief Cronan. When St Ailbe was born the Chief Cronan ordered that he should be killed. They lived in the castle in Knockaney. His mother did not want the chief to kill him. So she stole him out and carried him up and put him under a rock in Lackelly leac Ailbe. A wold found him there and she used to feed him every day. One day Lorcan Mac Luigir found him and took him to his own house. Tradition said Lorcan was the "perfection of natural goodness". Lorcan gave him to people from Britain. The Britains were Christians and they brought St Ailbe up a Christian. One day the Britains were going to Britain and they did not want to take St. Ailbe. They set sail without him but were driven back on the coast. They looked on this as a sign that Ailbe was to go with them. He went to Rome and he was ordained a priest and then he was consecrated bishop. He went to Western Europe to teach. Then he went to Brittany and to Wales. He came back to Hillroot, East of Ulster. He made his way to the South till he

There are five holy wells in this parish. One of them is very well known. The four others are but very little known. The names of some of them are forgotten.
St, Ailbe's well is situated in the corner of the graveyard. It is a very large well. It is a very deep well. It is said that St, Ailbe jumper from the of the hill of Knockcarron to where the well stands now and that it is what caused the well to be there. People go round the well on the 12th of September. Emly, Every time they go round it they bless themselves and say the rosary. It is said that a an with a bundle of straw was tired and seated himself on the side of the well. As he was sitting down he fall into the well. When he fell in the water overflowed and he swan out of the water. People take the water from the well to drink. When St Ailbe was young he was sent into a garden to keep birds off of it and since that people go to the well, and take water from it and sprinkle it on the corn to keep the birds away.

he jumped from the Hill of Knockarron to the graveyard and where the he landed the well is now.

St. Ailbe is the patron saint of this parish. He was born in Lockelly in the year 400 AD. No church built by him now exists. It is said that the foundations of his church are underground in the south eastern corner of the graveyard.
He had a monastery in the place where the graveyard now stands. He died in Emly in the year 490 A.D. He was buried in the graveyard in Emly. His grave is known by a large granite cross. It is a very ancient cross and the sign of the cross is marked on it by the people with a stone every time they go to it. There is a holy well in the corner of the graveyard. It is called St Ailbe's well. It is a very deep well and it is lined with stone all round it inside. There is a railing of stone all round it to keep people from falling into it. There is a special day dedicated to him. The 12th September is the day dedicated to him. It is a day of special devotion in the parish. The people go to the well on that day to say their prayers. They go around the well nine times. Fr every three times they go around the well they say the rosary. Also they go around the graveyard five times. Every time they go around the graveyard they say the rosary. Lackelly is called after St Ailbe and also is Caherelly in the Co of Limerick. There were a lot of people called after him long ago but still there are people called after him. It is said that he rose a young man from the dead. It is said also that

is very good.

There is a well in Kilbrack called after Saint Christopher, This well was once a "pattern" well. The well is there now but no "pattern" is held. There was a house near this well and people lived in it but they seldom came out. Some of the house is to be seen yet. The people that lived in that house used to get up very early in the morning and go got water to the well so that they would get the best of the water. The water drawn from the well for the rest of the day would be bad. This well is used now by the people around the place and the water in it

from the road. It is said that there was an old man working at Connollys of Park and one day he began to dig a canal near the well and he got pains and died. They say it was because he disturbed the well.
There was a church also in the townland called after the Saint but only the remains of it are to be seen now. It fell down because one Sunday as Mass was on, the hunt passed near the gate and all the people followed it. There is nothing left now but the Holy Water fonts.

The days between the 22 nd of June and the 30th of June are kept in my townland, Park, Cp Waterford in honour of St John. there is a well in Park called St John's well. It is on the left -hand side of the road from Rathgormack to Park.
On the days mentioned above the people of the place come to the well to say the Rosary. If any person has pains he washes in this well because there is a cure in it. It is said that there is a gold cup hidden under it. The well was near the road at first but a woman washed garment in it and it disappeared from the place where it was and re-appeared farther in

a bucket of water from Mothel well. When the woman came home she found that one of the fishes was in the bucket of water. She put the water down on the fire to boil and if she kept boiling it for ever it would not boil because the two fishes that were in the bucket were the two Saints. She put the water in the well again.

The names of the patron Saints of Mothel Carrick-in-Suir, Co Waterford are St Brogán and St Quan. They had a Monastery and the remains of it are to be seen yet. It is in the middle of Mothel graveyard a few yards down from Mothel village and at the left-hand side of the road. They also owned a well, called Mothel well. It is a short distance from Mothel village. From the 7 th of July to the 15th of July is kept in honour of the Saints. It is called the "Pattern" week a lot of people go to the "Pattern". There is a stream running out of the well and when people go there they walk the stream nine times to get cured of anything that would be wrong with them and some people wash their heads in the stream. When people go, they take a drink of water and some of them pay a penny for the drink. A woman gives out water and the people bring home bottles of it. the Saints are dead now but their images are on a stained glass over the high Altar in Clonea Church Co Waterford. One time a woman brought home

There is a blessed well in Latteragh called St Kiaran's well. People visit it on August 15th There are three "rounds" to be performed and three " Hail Marys" and the "Hail Holy Queen" to be said each time. There are two round stones on the siad of the well :- -(one) the big round is a cure for a pain in the head and a small round one is a cure for sore eyes. People drink the water. it is good to cure diseases. Money and medals and pins and hair- pins are thrown into the well. There is an eel in the well and if a steel cross was let hand down the eel would out to it. There is a story told that one Sunday the Saint (that) who owns the well was left to mind crows from the garden and he gathered all the crows into a castle nearby and went to mass. Then
There is a well in Glenbreeda called St Brigids well. It was in another field long ago and two women washed clothes in the well and (all) the water cleared away (and) The women swept the well and shook holdy water in it, but the water never sprang up again. It sprung up in the adjoining field. There is a blessed well in

Once a girl who was blind went to Mothel Well to be cured. She walked the stream and prayed very hard and her sight was given to her. but when she went home that evening she said "If my sight will harm my soul I am satisfied to be blind again. She lost her sight again that day.
One day a party of Protestant came to the Pattern of Mothel for a picnic. They spread a white cloth and they were just about to eat when it rose up and went to the stream. It dipped itself three times and then went back to them. They all became Catholics after that.

The pattern of Mothel is held once a year in honour of St Quan and brogan. It begins on the eight of July and lasts for a week. Many people go to it especially on the Sunday which comes after the eight. There are many games --., such as rings, wheel of fortune. Timber Maggie and cards played there provided by travelling men. The weather is usually bad the pattern week.
The Pattern is held in Ballynevin. There is a well there and people drink the water of it and bring some home in a bottle. People also walk the stream and people afflicted with some disease walk it nine times and say prayers. There is a statue there erected by the people of Clonea and Rathgormack. Once the pattern was banned by the priests because of the faction fights and also because so many people got drunk there but now it is carried on again in a peaceful and proper way.

From time immemorial Ireland has been celebrated for its Holy Wells and Healing Fountains. Many of wells were blessed by our Holy Apostle St. Patrick.The Holy Well that I know best and one which I visit every year is situated in Mothel in the Parish of Rathgormack, Co Waterford
This well was blessed by Saints Cuan and Brógán and it had for ages like many other holy wells two enchanted trout. Great crowds of people assemble here on annual Patron day to make their round of prayer. This Holy well is round in shape over hung by a large ash tree and there is a lovely stream flowing from it through the fields. It is customary for the pilgrims to walk nine times in the stream and at the same time to recite the rosary. It is one of the most picturesque

Saint Ita is the patron Saint of this parish. She was born in Waterford about 470 A.D. Some say she lived near the present town of Dungarvan. Her father was a noble chieftain and was leader of a powerful tribe in the Co. Waterford. Ita was his only child and she was endowed with remarkable gifts of wisdom and intelligence. As Ita grew up her fame spread far and wide. Nowhere was such a beautiful maiden to be seen and indeed all wondered. God often told her she would leave her if home penniless and would leave here of home penniless and would travel on foot to some far distant place pointed out to here by him, when she reached the age of twenty one, and he warned her to grow up in faith, and be ready for her future mission.
The father resolved that he would do all in his power to prevent this. When Ita reached the age of twenty one, he had a marriage arranged for her with a local chieftain but she would not listen to his advice God had pointed out to her, her future

This St. came from Waterford to Killeedy in 484. Old people say that St Ita worked many miracles. One day as St. Brendan was hurling with other boys around her monastery, he hurt his foot. On arriving to the little Convent St. Ita fetched a basin of water, washed the foot, then laid a statue of " Our Lord" up on it, and in less than no time it was healed. On another occasion she cured a blind kings daughter who came from Scotland to her Convent. Tradition say that she once went to visit a sick neighbour. On returning from the house the mistress came with her. St Ita saw a beautiful shrub growing in a china pot, she asked the mistress if she may get a slip of it, and the mistress replied yes. On St Ita returning hoe she planed the slip in a pot, and in less than a week there was a beautiful red rose growing in the slip.It is said that God worked a miracle for her, because the slip was not to flower until Spring.

When Holycross Abbey was being built a man came there one day looking for work, but the foreman said he had enough men. It was just dinner- time and as the men were going away the stranger said to the forman " What will I be doing while you are away" and he replied " Make a cat with two tails", When they came back from their dinners they found a perfect cat and two tails cut in stones, but the stranger was gone. This man was the Gobán Soar and he is buried on an island, which is called after him situated in the bog between Laffans Bridge and Horse and Jockey.
Their is a run of a church on this island and near the church there is a stone three corned in shape and hollow in the middle called the Gobán Saor's Cap. It is local tradition that whoever carries this stone on his head three times round the church will never be troubled with a toothache.

The "Gobán Saor" wsa a mason who lived with his wife at a place called "The Island" situated in Lurgoe bog not far from Laffan's Bridge, a station on the railway line from Thurles to Clonmel.
This mason was renowned as a builder and so famous was that the king heard of him and sent him to build a castle. he went to build the castle and the king to make sure that such another castle would not be built by the Goban intended to have him put to death when the castle was finished. The Gobán heard this and pretended that he had forgotten one of his tools, but the king ordered a messenger to go and get it. The Gobán saor's wife grew suspicious when her husband did not return, and as the messenger did not repeat the watchword "Diamond cut Diamond" she knew

(1) His appearance fair haired, tall, light in step.
2. His upbringing. reared with the old blind father. Motherless. 3. His power with stone surprises the nearest neighbours. 4. He gets the mason's language. 5. He goes in search of a wife. 6. He builds a hat for a local grandee. 7. He places a corner stone in Graystown Castle. 8. he teaches his wife the mason's language and is tried for it. 9. He builds a castle for the King of Wales King of the North of England 10. He appears as a "lone" man. 11. His grave and its measurements 12. His hat and its cure 13. "The skin and price of it. 14. All his genius seems to be derived from the fact that he was an old man's som "mothered" by the old blind father. The young mother died at this birth. The boy was reared in the solitude of the island Rough plan of Island

The Gobán Saor was a native of South Tipperary he was the nest mason in Ireland in olden times. His father was a mason also, but he never say his father working. The way he learned his trade was He saw an old book in the corner of his home and he picked it up and read it. From that, he was the greatest mason in Ireland.
When Holy Cross Abbey was being built he went to the foreman to ask for work and the foreman asked him, what work was he able to do, The Gobán answered I can do masonary. You may make cat- o- nine tails beautifully carved out of a large stone, and had it put into the masonary and fled to safety as all the other masons were trying to kill him. It is said that the cat -o- nine tails is still to be seen there

Long ago the people used to melt sheep's tallow and get a piece of a stick and hang a lot of wicks on it and they used to dip the wicks in the sheep tallow until there was a lot of tallow round the wick. There they would hang them out to dry. These candles were called "dipped candles". Sometimes they used to get rushes instead of

said he was. Although it was very near dinner time and they were preparing to go to their dinner this stranger got down to work. But before some of the men went to their dinner the said to them what would he cut out and one of them said to him " Cut out a cat of nine tails" so he did so and when the men came back from their dinner he was gone away ad he had the cat of nine Tales cut out for them. Some of the men saw him crossing a field , so they followed him but did not catch him and they never saw him after

said he was. Although it was very near dinner time and they were preparing to go to their dinner this stranger got down to work. But before some of the men went to their dinner the said to them what would he cut out and one of them said to him " Cut out a cat of nine tails" so he did so and when the men came back from their dinner he was gone away ad he had the cat of nine Tales cut out for them. Some of the men saw him crossing a field , so they followed him but did not catch him and they never saw him after

said he was. Although it was very near dinner time and they were preparing to go to their dinner this stranger got down to work. But before some of the men went to their dinner the said to them what would he cut out and one of them said to him " Cut out a cat of nine tails" so he did so and when the men came back from their dinner he was gone away ad he had the cat of nine Tales cut out for them. Some of the men saw him crossing a field , so they followed him but did not catch him and they never saw him after

When they were building Holycross Abbey they had a great number of men working there but one day as they were working very hard this stranger came into them and some of the men said to him was he any good at cutting out things out of stone and he

and opening a deep chest she told the men it was in the bottom and that they must stoop down for it ass it was too deep for her to reach down. No sooner had they stooped down to get it than she came behind they and tumbled them into the chest and locked it and said thay out of that they would not get until her husband came home. When the employer's son was not returning the father sent the Gobán to see what was delaying his son and so the Góban got home safe and sound.

The Gobán was passing along the road one day and he saw a man on top of a castle and he shouting for help. The Gobán asked what was the matter and the man on top told him thay he had finished building the castle the owner stole away the ladder and left him there because the did not want to pay him his wages. " In it not easier to knock down two stones than to put up one" said the Gobán. The man on hearing this set to work to knock down the castle and the owner soon came and released him.
The Gobán was at one time building a castle for an Englishman and it came to his knowledge he would be killed when the work was finished, so he said to his employers that he could not complete the work without a certain tool which he had left in his tool chest at home. The employer said he would send his own son for it and he went and another man was sent along with him. Before going the Gobán gave them the message in Irish which he pretended was the name of his took which however it was not but a hint to his wife that he was in holt. The men did not know Irish and they delivered the message thinking they were asking for the tool. The wide who was a clever woman understood

When Holycross Abbey was being built a man came there one day looking for work, but the foreman said he had enough men. It was just dinner- time and as the men were going away the stranger said to the forman " What will I be doing while you are away" and he replied " Make a cat with two tails", When they came back from their dinners they found a perfect cat and two tails cut in stones, but the stranger was gone. This man was the Gobán Soar and he is buried on an island, which is called after him situated in the bog between Laffans Bridge and Horse and Jockey.
Their is a run of a church on this island and near the church there is a stone three coined in shape and hollow in the middle called the Gobán Saor's Cap. It is local tradition that whoever carries this stone on his head three times round the church will never be troubled with a toothache.

locked. Then the mason had to come home himself for the tools, and he opened the box and let out the man. He remained contented at home for the rest of his life.

the word made for him. He made a fine building and the gentleman did not want him to build one like it for anyone else. So he decided to kill the mason when the work was finished. When the mason found out that he was about to be killed he decided to get away. He said he had one of his tools left at the home and he asked to go for it, but the gentleman would not allow him but he sent his own son.
The mason gave him a letter to give to this wide the contents of which were head downwards and feet upwards. When the gentlemans son reached the masons house he gave the letter to his wife. She opened a large deep box and she told the young man to reach down for the tools. When he stooped down she pushed him into the box and

Once upon a time there lived a first class mason called the " Goban Saor". He went looking for a job and he took all his implements with him, He met with a mason contractor. He asked the contractor if he had any work for him. He told him to have a cat with nine tails carved out on a stone and put on the wall when he returned from dinner. He finished the job and went off again looking for another. He travelled on until her met a minister. The minister told him to cut out his own statue on stone. The mason started the work. He turned the face backwards and put two noses on it. He went on again until he met a man who wanted the finest building in

was on his last, they had time and no more to administer the last sacrament. It was the devil up to another of his tricks, for when they were returning there was no sign of the gold.
There is another well in Mill Road called the Pound well. It was so called because when the cattle were seized they were brought down to the pound, this was a field with pailings all around and the well in the middle. The pailings have long since gone but the well is still there.

every year, and any one who has pains, bathe there hands or feet in the water, there is a cure in it. They leave a hankie or anything belonging to themselves.
Springfield Terrace is situated where Spoutwell lane used to be. It was so called because when a well would spring up, it would be covered in, but near it another would spring up. A story is told how one of those sprung up and ran across the road. The Bishop, a priest , and the coach-man, were driving to a sick man as they were about to cross this stream, the priest and coach man beheld a crock of sovernings , they wanted to get out but the bishop ordered them to drive on. When they arrived at house the man

There are many wells in Mullingar, namely, Sundays well this is situated outside Auburn Terrace, it got its name because an angel was supposed to have appeared to a man on a Sunday.
Priestwell Lane was situated opposite the Dispensary. It got its names from a monastery. Saint Bridgets well was situated at the far side of Levington, near St Brideacts Churchyard. There is a very small hawthorn bush growing over the well. A man whose people still live, put up his hand to break off a branch, his hand remained in mid-air until the day of his death. The branch still hangs loosely and no wind or storm has ever broken it off. The people go there

having blessed it. Pilgrimages are held there every year.
Sr Bridget's Well is situated at Levingston's Cross in St Brideac churchyard. There is a little bush beside it, and the people used to hand pieces of rags on the bush. It is said if you do not hand rags on it you will not be cured. Priest- Well Lane is situated in Austin Friar's St opposite the Dispensary. There was an Augustinian Friary opposite the well and the priest used the water out of the well.

There are four holy wells in Mullingar that I have any knowledge of. St Bridget's Well is situated in a field about a yard from Ash Road. There is a tree at one site of it . It is said that on the first morning of May till the ninth of May, some people go down to the well and drink the water for nine mornings and they are cured of whatever disease they have.
Sunday's Wells is situated at Auburn Tce. it is a square hole in the wall and the water is very clear and clear. It got its name on account of one of our Irish Saints

Ta trí tobair bennuighte ins ab bparóiste seo Tobar Cailín atá suidhte i gCaoran Mór Tobar na seacht Naoimh síos faoi Cnoc an Dúin i Sillbhresc agus Tobar Flainnin i n-Iorras Flainnín. Níl aon tor nó crainn ag na toibhrescha seo. Is talamh cnocach atá i n-aice an cuid is mó de na toibrescha seo. Teigheann a lán daoine ar turas chuig. Tobar Cailín ar an triomhadh a theigheas ann " Seacht Ár nathair" agus seacht " Sé do bheacha agus seacht " Glór do'n Athair, " Tugann siad leo seacht rudaí mar sin. Tugann na daoine abhaile a lár uisge beannuighte.
Is maith agus is cumachtach Tobar na Seacht Naomh' Cuairt bean uair amair go dti é agus bhí páiste ar a dhruim aice nach raibh i ndon suibhal. Theall sí oí feín gobfanfadh sí ag an tobar ar feadh na huisve. Timcheall i lár na hoidhche thainigh éan' agus thuirling séanuas ar cosa and cailín big. Ar an bpoinnce bí an cailín indon suibhal agus cuadadar abhaile.

St. Cailín is the Patron Saint of Errismore. It is said he came here in the sixth century. He travelled on until he came to Keeraunmore, the peninsular of which Slyne Head is the most westerly point. Here he established a Holy Well, to which there is an annual pilgrimage on the 13th of November, - Cailín's Day.
The well is situated on a height near the sea, overlooking the wild Atlantic. Furze and brambles grow near it. A "carn" of stones is also near it. Around it is a protecting wall built by the people of the district. The water of the well has been known to cure bad headaches and many other ailments. The fishermen along the coast have great faith in St. Cailín, and they carry the water from the well in their boats. On their way back to the fishing ground, they pass the rocky headland on which the well is situated, and they never forget to call on St. Cailíín and invoke his help to bring them safely home. They attribute the fact that no one was ever lost on sea off this coast to St Cailín's intercessions.

The patron saint of this parish is Saint Flannan. There are two wells dedicated to this saint one in Mucknish and Druimanure. They perform rounds to these wells on two Sundays and a Thursday. If you performed a round to this well on the eighteenth of December you need not visit it any more. The saints feast day is hold on the eighteenth of December but it is not a holiday of obligation and people perform rounds to it on that day. Some people of the parish call their children after Saint Flannan and they are mostly to be found in Kilnamona

knees in to the altar, and kiss the crucifix. Most people bring a bottle of holy water home from the wells. People go there from June the 24th to the 29th. It is supposed that St John lived here long ago. He foretold that no damage would ever be caused by lightning to the people of Ballyea.
St Martin's WellSt Martin's Well is situated near Ballynacally school. The people go there on November the 11th. The waters of the well is supposed to be a cure for sore eyes. The cure can be got by praying for one night at the well. There are no particular prayers prescribed to it. St Scriobhán's Well There are about three wells dedicated to St Sriobhán at the edge of Clondegad river in Mr Garry's land.

There are many Blessed Wells in the parish. We have St Martins Blessed Well in Ballynacally. When the people visit it they usually light a candle.

the people come in thousands to this Blessed Well. They come from every town and village from twenty miles around, to make their rounds and offer up their petitions. To the Well are taken the sick and infirm and wonderful are the cures credited to the Saint and numerous and striking are the favours granted through his intersession.The Well is situated in a little grove, through with runs a path and people tread this path when making their “rounds”. The “rounds” consists of three circuits of the Well with a pause during each circuit the Well. A decade of the Rosary is said during each round and a Pater, an Ave, and a Gloria are said during each pause. The he blesses himself with the water of the Well and takes a drink of the water.
It is customary with many clients of the Saint to pay a visit to the Blessed Well each day for nine days preceding his Feast Day or the nine days after the Feast of the Saint. Each person takes some of the Well Water with him. In the case of external complaints or injuries, the injured limb or part is bathed in the stream which flows from the Holy Well and sometimes a cloth dipped in waters put on as a bandage. The water is drunk for internal ailments. People leave mementoes of their visit at the Well. These take the form of medals, rosary beads, scapulars, and are left

a new well sprung up next morning in its place.
Hanging on a tree which grows at one end of the well are crutches etc. These were cured at the well.

The eel or trout. If this fish is seen it is supposed to be a sign that the petition of the person is granted by the intercession of St Fanahan.
Very many people of the parish abstain from meat on the eve of St Fanahan. There is a tradition amongst the people that the original position of St Fanahan's well was far removed far removed from its present location that it was quite close to the chuch and monastery of Brigown. In the field that lies between the Rectory and the Churchyard and at a very short distance _ one or two perches _ from the eastern boundary wall of the latter, there is a bush or stunted tree shading a hole or cavity, it was said, was the original well of Fanahan. Then followed the story a woman washed clothes in the Holy Well, that in consequence it dried up and that

Wells are amongst the oldest relics existing of Ancient Ireland. Wells and Twisted Snakes were associated with Druid Worship from very early times.
About 1/4 mile from the town on the eastern side is St Fanahan's Well. It is approached by a raised walk bordered by trees. At the end of the walk is a stream crossed by means of a bridge. The well is circular with large stones edging it. These stones are used as kneelers by people making "their Rounds" On 25th November large crowds visit the well male their rounds, take a drink of water and earnestly look for

The name of our patron saint is Saint Martin. It is said he was born in Tours in France and hen he cross to Ireland. He has a blessed Well in Ballynacally a few hundred yards in from the road in the farm of Mr Mc Mahon.
The well is supposed to be good for sore eyes and sore feet. People visit it on the 11th of November. This is St Martin's Day. The people spill blood on that day because it is a superstitious belief they have. St Martin was ground in a mill therefore people turn no wheel on that day. St Martin very often worked miracles when he came to Ireland.

There are four blessed well in out parish St Martin, St Scríobán's, St Neadans and St Ruth.
St Martins. There is a blessed Well in Ballynacally by the name of St Martins. It is situated a few hundred yards in from the road in Mr Mc Mahon's field. It is good for sore eyes and feet. People visit it on the 11th of November. The Rosary

knees in to the altar, and kiss the crucifix. Most people bring a bottle of holy water home from the wells. People go there from June the 24th to the 29th. It is supposed that St John lived here long ago. He foretold that no damage would ever be caused by lightning to the people of Ballyea.
St Martin's WellSt Martin's Well is situated near Ballynacally school. The people go there on November the 11th. The waters of the well is supposed to be a cure for sore eyes. the cure can be got by praying for one night at the well. There are no particular prayers prescribed to it. St Sepiobán's Well There are about three wells dedicated to St Spioban at the edge of Clondegad river in Mr Garry's land.

knees in to the altar, and kiss the crucifix. Most peopl bring a bottle of holy water home from the wells. People go there from June the 24th to the 29th. It is supposed that St John lived here long ago. He foretold that no damage would ever be caused by lightning to the people of Ballyea.
St Martin's WellSt Martin's Well is situated near Ballynacally school. The people go there on November the 11th. The waters of the well is supposed to be a cure for sore eyes. the cure can be got by praying for one night at the well. There are no particular prayers prescribed to it. St Sepiobán's Well There are about three wells dedicated to St Spioban at the edge of Clondegad river in Mr Garry's land.

There is a holy well dedicated to St John in Newhall. It is supposed to be a cure for sore eyes, headaches and toothaches. The cure for sore eyes can be got by doing a round and rubbing the water of the well to them. A pieces of the bark off the tree near the Blessed Virigin's altar is supposed to be able to cure toothache.
Above the well there is an arch about the size of a person's head. By circling his head around three times in this arch a person can get the cure . When the people come to the well, they drink a glass of holy water, after doing the round. This round is done by saying the Rosary, while doing the five rounds. If a person does not go barefoot they must make an extra round. When the five rounds are finished they must go on their

Tá Tobar beannuighthe suidre igCaoran Mór agus tá Tobar na Seacht Naomh suidre in Aillbhreac. Sé an t-ainm atá are an tobar igCaoran Mór Tobar Naomh Cailin. An lá drugann na daoine turas ann an tríomhadh lá deag de mí na Samhna. Do suibalann said thart timcheall an tobar seacht n-uaire agus togann siad seacht gclocan beaga deireann said Ár nAithair Failre an aingel agus Glór do'nAthair. Cuireann said comhartha na croise orra féin agus annsin olann siad an t-uisge. Togann siad uisge beannuighthe abaile leo.
Cuirannsiad uisge beannuighthe arra féin mara bfuil pianta arra. D'fágann siad cnapaí no piosa eadraíg no piginn no rudaí sin. Bí teampull ag Naomg Cailin ar Oilean Iachan agus bí fear age obair ar Teach an Soluis agus lá amhain chuidh sé isteac insann teampull agus rinne sé droch rud ann cupla seachtmhaine no cupla Mí in a diaid sin fuair sé bás agus sin é an sceal a cula muid. Niór cuala muid aon tracht are aoine a tiormuighte an tobar. Níl tor no crann ag fás ann. Tobar na Seacht Naomh teigeann na daoine go dtí é roimh Aifrean agus dea h-Aoine.

Ta trí tobair bennuighte ins ab bparóiste seo Tobar Cailín atá suidhte i gCaoran Mór Tobar na seacht Naoimh síos faoi Cnoc an Dúin i Sillbhresc agus Tobar Flainnin i n-Iorras Flainnín. Níl aon tor nó crainn ag na toibhrescha seo. Is talamh cnocach atá i n-aice an cuid is mó de na toibrescha seo. Teigheann a lán daoine ar turas chuig. Tobar Cailín ar an triomhadh a theigheas ann " Seacht Ár nathair" agus seacht " Sé do bheacha£ agus seacht " Glór don Athair, " Tugann siad leo seacht rudaí mar sin. Tugann na daoine abhaile a lár uisge beannuighte.
Is maith agus is cumachtach Tobar na Seacht Naomh' Cuairt bean uair amair go dti é agus bhí páiste ar a dhruim aice nach raibh i ndon suibhal. Theall sí oí feín gobfanfadh sí ag an tobar ar feadh na huisve. Timcheall i lár na hoidhche thainigh éan' agus thuirling séanuas ar cosa and cailín big. Ar an bpoinnce bí an cailín indon suibhal agus cuadadar abhaile.

Micheal C. de Búrca, as Cruinighlinn, Béal-Átha-Ghluínín de sgriobh aois. 12.
Tá Tobar Phádraic timcheall míle soir ón sgoil seo. Tá roilig ann agus tá tobar beannuighthe istigh innu. Tá leac a bhfuil sean sgriobhadh uirti le h-ais an tobair. Creideann na daoine gur caith Naoimh Pádhraic oidhce annsin agus é ar a bhealach go Cill Benín. Deirtear gur bhleagh duine eicint an gobhar abí ag Pádhraic an oidhce sin, agus chuir sé mallacht ar muintir na h-áirce. Do bíod na daoine ag tabairt turas san áit fadó, lá féile Pádraic. Marbuigheadh fear ann, lá a raibh siad ag troid, agus chuir an sagart deireadh leis an turas. Do tárla sé sin timchealls ceirthre sgór blíadhann ó soin.

Mrs. M Ronan, 73
Oldtown, Tullaroan, Co Kilkenny

There are not many holy wells in the parish of Tullaroan. the well which I am going to write about is situate in Mr. Dillon's field and it is near the road.
The shape of it is round and was built shortly after the time of Cromwell. The well was built by a holy man that was living in Tullaroan. The well is in the middle of the field and there is a bush near it called the monument bush. There is no water in it now because it dried up and alot of stones in it. The word Avemaria in front of it. Pierce Ronan I heard this from

There are not many holy wells in Tullaroan only three. there are two in Huntstown one of them is to be seen but the other could not be found.
There is supposed to be treasure hidden in the one that could not be found. There were people looking for that well bit they could not find it. There are letters engraved on a stone in the well. These wells were built by monks who lived in a church in Huntstown long ago. There is another holy well in Roagan but it is only a little pool of water and there is no cover on it. James Clohosey The above information was given by Mrs Clohosey, Tullaroan, Co Kilkenny.

When Saint Patrick came to Ireland, he visited many different place.
In the town land of Gurt- na-Gap. There is a well. It is said that one day, while Saint Patrick was passing, he knelt down on the flag to get a drink. The mark if his knee can be seen plainly on the flag. It was my Father Thomas Hennessy gave me this information. He is about forty three years and he lives in Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny.

There is a holy well at the side of the munster River in the Parish of Tullaroan in the Townland Gortnagap which is called "Saint Patricks Well". There was a woman named Mrs Gleeson who was sick for along time with diabetes living near the well. The doctor said she would not live long she went to the well and drank a little water and prayed. She paid two more visits and was cured. She lived for years after.
It was my mother, Mrs Gaffney, who gave me this information. She is about forty years of age and lives in Reimeen, Tullaroan Co Kilkenny.

of them was ate alive with flays and they were all so tormented that had to leave their castle. The third jump it made was to where it is now. At that time all the land around there was poor and wet but when it lighted there it said:-
"Here I will stay till the destruction of the world and I vow that his farm will turn into fertile land, the most fertile in the parish of Clonmore and no one will interfere with me, and no grass will grow over me and I will be here till the end of time". note. The holy well & bullaun stone mentioned above are shown on map - Page 1.

Told by James Byrne, Killalongford, Clonmore, Hacketstown, Co Carlow on Feby 1930.
Born on 6th Jany. 1849 inKillalongford spent his life there. Heard it from his father ( ). ______________________ Years an'years ago there was a monastery in Clonmore and there was a whole lot of monks and priests and saints in it. But in the time of the Danes the monastery was destroyed by them. All the saints was killed and all the holy vessels was taken by the robbers, and the last time they came there a big stone as blew up out of the monastery and it made three jumps. The first place that it jumped to was a bit below the monastery and where it lighted a spring of water sprang up and it cured thousands of people of their disaises- an it would cure em still if they only went there instead of to the potashery. The second jump it made of lighted at the robbers castle above in -ulddre and soon as it did every wan

that is was just coming for me or thea I was finished. There was no use in going to ---- to get it drew on account of where I had it. Well I was coming from blakes bethought of going into St. Mogue's well. I said a few prayers at the well & 1 rubbed the water to the cancer. Would you believe it that was the first night I slept soundly as I couldnt leave it out of my head. Stranger then that I never thought of putting up my hand to it the rest day nor till the third day after, I was putting out the cows & I put up my finger & there wasnt a haporth there- not a sign of it - nor since."

inches long and thirteen inches broad as its widest end lying on the right hand side of the well with a hollow in it near the upper end from which runs a groove down its length.
The well is resorted to at the present time for the cure of sore eyes, warts or any skin growths -even for cancer. The procedure of a person resorting to the well for a cure is to draw some water from the well with the hand & pouts it into the hollow of the small boulder. It is then applied to the affected part: no special prayers are said. This has to be done on three successive Fridays according to some; others say that it may be done on any day. I have not heard of the wells being frequented for spiritual needs. A local traditional narrative regarding the origin of the well is given in this book page 10. Also on Page 1 of this book will be found a map showing the exact position of the well. Told by Ths Daeton, Rahe-----. "There is nothing in the world as true as that it cures cancer. Do you remember the time I had the cancer in the neck? There wasn't a day nor an hour of the day that I hadnt my hand up feeling it. I used say to myself

This well is situated near St Mogue's Cross at Clonmore and beside a little stream that flows under the road further on. The stump of a mountain ash stood over it until 1930 when it was blown down by a storm.
The well gets its name from St Mogue( MoAebhóg) who founded a monastery in Clonmore towards the end of the sixth century. His festival falls on the 11th April but it is a strange fact that the Pattern which was formerly held at the well took place on 3rd January, the festival day of St Mogue. Patron saint of the diocese of Ferns. Edward McDonald Clonmore now aged 89 years does not remember the Pattern being held but he remembers hearing his father speak of it being held in his young days. That would mean that the Pattern has not been hold for well over one hundred years. There is no sign of the cloths and other votive offerings usually to be met with at a Blessed well. There is a little granite boulder, twenty-five

There was a local tradition that when the mountain ash beside the well would have disappeared there would be no more- Catholics in Clonmore. The tradition has not been borne out as the tree fell in 1930. Some coins were got.

that is was just coming fro me of-- I was finished. There was no use in going to Hairs -- get it drew on account of where I had it. Well I was coming from slakes bethought of going into St. Mogue's well. I said a few prayers at the well & 1 rubbed the water to the cancer. Would you believe it that was the first night I slept soundly as I wouldnt leave it out of my head. Stranger then that I ---- th---t of putting up my hand to it the rest day nor till the third day after, I was putting out the cows & I out up my finger & there wasnt a -apo-th there- not a sign of it - nor since."

inches long and thirteen inches broad as its widest end lying on the right hand side of the well with a hollow in it near the upper end from which
a grove down its lenght. The well is resorted to at the present time for the cure of sore eyes, warts or any skin growths -even for cancer. The procedure of a person resorting to the well for a cure is to draw some water from the well with the hand pouts it into the hollow of the small boulder. It is then applied to the affected part: no special prayers are said. This has to be done on three successive Fridays according to some; others say that it may be done on any day. I have not heard of the wells being frequented for spiritual needs. A local traditional narrative regarding the origin of the well is given in this book page 10. Also on Page 1 of this book will be found a map showing the exact position of the well. Told by ---. Daeton, Rahe----ue. "There is nothing in the world as true as that if cures cancer. Do you remember the -e-e d had the cancer in the neck? There wasn't a day nor an hour of the day that I hadnt my hand up feeling it. I used say -- myself

This well is situated near St Mogue's Cross at Clonmore and beside a little stream that flows under the road further on. The stump of a mountain ash stood over it until 1930 when it was blown down by a storm.
The well gets its name from St Mogue( MoAebhóg) who founded a monastery in Clonmore towards the end of the sixth century. His festival falls on the 11th April but it is a strange fact that the Pattern which was formerly held at the well took place on 3rd January, the festival day of St Mogue. Patron saint of the diocese of Ferns. Edward McDonald Clonmore now aged 89 years does not remember the Pattern being held but he remembers hearing his father speak of it being held in his young days. That would mean that the Pattern has not been hold for well over one hundred years. There is no sign of the cloths and other votive offerings usually to be met with at a Blessed well. There is a little granite boulder twenty-five

of them was are alive with flays and they were all so tormented that had to leave their castle. The third jump it made was to where it is now. At that time all the land around there was poor and wet but when it lighted there it said:-
"Here I will stay till the destruction of the world and I vow that his farm will turn into fertile land, the most fertile in the parish of Clonmore and no one will interfere with me, and no grass will grow over me and I will be here till the end of time". note. The holy well & bullaun stone mentioned above are shown on map - Page 1.

Told by James Byrne, Killalongford, Clonmore, Hacketstown, Co Carlow on Feby 1930.
Born on 6th Jany. 1849 inKillalongford spent his life there. Heard it from his father ( ). ______________________ Years an'years ago there was a monastery in Clonmore and there was a whole lot of monks and priests and saints in it. But in the time of the Danes the monastery was destroyed by them. All the saints was killed and all the holy vessels was taken by the robbers, and the last time they came there a big stone as blew up out of the monastery and it made three jumps. The first place that it jumped to was a bit below the monastery and where it lighted a spring of waters sprand up and it cured thousands of people of their disaises- an it would cure em still if they only went there instead of to the potashery. The second jump it made of lighted at the robbers castle above in fulddre and soon as it did every wan

some donation. The well never dried even in the warmest summer,

There is a holy well called Tobar Cinín Daibhidh in the townland of Woodhouse. It is situated in the corner of a field. People say that the well was further up the field. One day Major Fitzgerald washed his face in the well, and from that second onwards, it started to dry (to dry) until it was as dry as the field.
Then it sprang up in the field further down, and it is there to this day. It is about twelve feet in diameter. There is a path around the well two feet wide. The well is bordered with sally trees, is is overshadowed by a great oak tree. Br Benigus Treacy presented a stature of St David about three feet in height. To get cured you should walk around the well twrice saying whatever prayer you wished. It is a custom to leave

land is called " Tinnín Dá". It cures headaches. People drink the water and rub it to the forehead. Three sups of the water is taken. People leave a medal or a bead or a string there as a token of getting cured.
It is a round well and there are trees growing all around it. The people hang the tokens on the trees. The statue of St David is erected there. There is a lovely sand bubbling up out of the well. It is so clear you would imagine it was silver.

People who have warts are cured by throwing a penny or a pin into the water of the smaller well which is situated near the big well. Many people visited that well which it is [?].

People who have warts are cured by throwing a penny or a pin into the water of the smaller well which is situated near the big well. Many people visited that well which it is [?].

St Kieran's well is situated about six miles from Birr and one mile from Clareen. It is south of the village of Clareen.
On the road to Clareen there is a big white-thorn bush in the very centre of the road. That bush is supposed to be hundreds of years old. People on the way to the well generally leave beads medals on the bush. The well is about a quarter of a mile on the left hand side as you go to the Leap Castle to Clareen. The well is a square construction about 25 sq. ft in area. It is surrounded by ten or twelve evergreen trees. It is near a wood. The present owner of the field in which the wood is situated is Captain Bennet. Near the well are the ruins of St Ciarans church. The people visit the well between the 5th and 8th of March.

bush. The people going to the well bring a bit of cloth or string and when they are passing the bush hang the piece of of string on it. People go visit the well every year. When passing the bush you must keep it on your sight.

There is a well in the parish of Clareen in a field owned by Captain Bennett. In the month of March the people come from far and near to visit this well. You have to go thee times to the well if you have any ailment or sore to be cured.
Anyone that vists the well bring home a bottle of water from it to keep in the house. There is also a bush on the middle of the road. It is called St Kierans

There are no forges in the district. The only near one is at Kilonan. Long ago there was one at Kilmurray where MacMahon's shop is now. There was also one at Ballysimon Cross

This is a custom which I am inclined to believe is confined to parts of Connacht. It still survives in this area. On the day of the "Twelfth night" (as it called here) rushes are gathered, peeled and dried. They are then left steeping in grease. Each rush candle is about six inches long. When night comes, the candles are put standing upright is some soft matter- cally (concannon). (The old people used cowdung.) A candle is set up and named after each member of the family not forgetting the absent ones. The candles are then lighted. The tradition is that the person whose candle burns out first, will die first, and the other members of the family will die in the order in which their candles burn out. We, children, all believed in this when growing up, and oh: the delight of each one when his (or her candle did not burn out first or second.

Some of the boys have music and the rest of the boys dance. They sat a rime and when they go it to the house." The wren, the wren the king of all birds. St Stephens day was caught in the firs. Up with the kettle and down with the pan. Give me some money to bury the wren. When the have all gathered they divided it between them.
The following is another song that is sung by the wren boys The wren the wren the king of all birds St Stephen's day was caught in the firs Although he is little his family is great I pray you good lady give us a treat. My boy would speak if it had but a tongue and a penny or two would do it no wrong and if you haven't a penny a halfpenny will do and if you haven't a halfpenny God bless you.

On St Stepthens day every little boy goes out gathering money to bury the wren. They get up early so that they have all the money gathered before the rest of the boys go out.
They get false faces and put them on their faces. Then they get a stick and make a wren and put her up on the top of it Then they go in to the house and they show the wren and say "Give me some money to bury the wren".

On St. Stephen's Day bands of boys and girls go from house to house asking for money. They wear false faces and have a box on the end of a stick in which they stick feathers to make people think they have a wren. The say a rhythm which begins " The wren, the wren the king of all birds, St Stepthen's Day he was caught on the furze.... and make music. When night falls they go (the ) to a public house and spend the money.

On St. Stephen's Day bands of boys and girls go from house to house asking for money. They wear false faces and have a box on the end of a stick in which they stick feathers to make people think they have a wren. The say a rhythm which begins " The wren, the wren the king of all birds, St Stepthen's Day he was caught on the furze.... and make music. When night falls they go (the ) to a public house and spend the money.

On St. Stephen's Day bands of boys and girls go from house to house asking for money. They wear false faces and have a box on the end of a stick in which they stick feathers to make people think they have a wren. The say a rhythm which begins " The wren, the wren the king of all birds, St Stepthen's Day he was caught on the furze.... and make music. When night falls they go (the ) to a public house and spend the money.

wren's tail. They go to lanes and fields and woods and bogs. If they caught a wren they would bring it home. It is put in a cage for a week or a day and sometimes only one evening then they would let it go; they would feed it first before they would let it off.
Sometimes the party would go home and more ties would go to other houses. They would dance and sing and play music. They bring the dogs with them because if they caught no wren they would go look for rabbits instead.

Sometimes people go out "hunting the wren" but most of the people who used to "hunt the wren" are dead. Very few people hunt it nowadays because would rather play cards. Most of the people are boys and children. They go on St Stephen's Day at three o' clock in the evening. They all dress in ordinary clothes.
They bring dogs and salt to throw on the

The customs of "hunting the wren" is still carried out in this district. Sometime it is only men and boys and children go to ". They hunt the wren". On St. Stephen's Day the men go to hunt the wren. The boys dress up in all-coloured clothes when they are going to hunt it and they carry a holly bush with coloured ribbons out of it. They bring sticks with them. They go to Garranstackle bogs to hunt it. If they find any wrens they beat them but they do not kill them. When they are done they go home. The rhyme that is said is. "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, On St Stephen's Day he was caught in the furze."
This rhyme is said while hunting is going on.

The wran the wran the King of all birds, St Stephen's day was caught in the furzse. Although he was small his family was great. Rise up landlady and give us a trate. Up with the ketel and down with the pan. A penny on a halfpenny to bury the Wran.

There is one Holy Well in our parish it is called St Patricks well. It is so called beacause long ago when St Patrick came to Ireland he built churches and holy wells. He built a holy well about two miles outside of Ballinroble It is situated in the centre of the village of Ballinary. One day day St Patrick was passing through that village, and when the people saw him they saw that there was a Heavenly calm and his face. They followed him every where and they were asking him to Baptise them When St Patrick came to the well he sat down to rest all the people were looking at him in amazement and St Patrick got a cup and he baptised all the people around him Ever since the people of the district visit the well from the 15th August to the 8th Sept. Lots of people were cure in that well from several diseases. There is a white thorn tree growing over the bush.

There is one Holy Well in our parish it is called St Patricks well. It is so called beacause long ago when St Patrick came to Ireland he built churches and holy wells. He built a holy well about two miles outside of Ballinroble It is situated in the centre of the village of Ballinary. One day day St Patrick was passing through that village, and when the people saw him they saw that there was a Heavenly calm and his face. They followed him every where and they were asking him to Vaptise them When St Patrick came to the well he sat down to rest all the pople were looking at him in amazement and St Patrick got a cup and he baptised all the people around him Ever since the people of the district visit the well from the 15th August to the 8th Sept. Lots of people were cure in that well from several diseases. There is a white thorn tree growing over the bush.

"Going out in the Wren" is still practised: only young boys now go out in the wren but formerly grown men did the same.
Now the boys go in batches or singly. If they can manage to catch a wren they dress him up in ribbons, put him into a small box also arrayed in ribbons and bring him round with them. But if they can't get a wren they stick feathers in a small ciarán of turf and this does instead. They disguise themselves -thats an essential part of the game. There is no particular sort of disguise. They go from house to house getting money in each house. Sometimes batches of boys from 16 to 20 years do the rounds. These have often tin whistles or sometimes melodeons or mouth organs. They play and dance, but they seldom

"Going out in the Wren" is still practised: only young boys now go out in the wren but formerly grown men did the same.
Now the boys go in batches or singly. If they can manage to catch a wren they dress him up in ribbons, put him into a small box also arrayed in ribbons and bring him round with them. But if they can't get a wren they stick feathers in a small ciarán of turf and this does instead. They disguise themselves -thats an essential part of the game. There is no particular sort of disguise. They go from house to house getting money in each house. Sometimes batches of boys from 16 to 20 years do the rounds. These have often tin whistles or sometimes melodeons ot mouth organs. They play and dance, but they seldom

the wren song. They would also carry decorated bushes.
The wren would be carried in triumph on top of the branches. These people are dressed up with vigards and other odd clothes some of the men are dressed as women and they would carry a long stick with the bladder of a football tied on the top of it and when they would meet a person they would hit them on top of the head with. "St Brigids Day" the customs are men and boys dress up and go from house to house singing and collecting money this s called breadogue.

In the olden times Christmas was honoured very much because the people would not get meat from one end of the year to the other so they would have a great feast when Christmas would come and they would be delighted to hear that Christmas was near. When Christmas day came and the feast was performed all the family would rush to the table to see who would get the nearest to the sweet cake, some of the small children who would not have space at the table would be seated at the fire. They would not be pleased because they would not be able to get as much of the sweet cake as those who would be seated at the table then they would be sorry to see that the best time of Christmas was passed. So they would spare the rest of the food for "New Years Day" and the " Twelfth Day"
Then when St Stephens Day came many boys and grown up men would gather together proceed from house to house singing

In the olden times Christmas was honoured very much because the people would not get meat from one end of the year to the other so they would have a great feast when Christmas would come and they would be delighted to hear that Christmas was near. When Christmas day came and the feast was performed all the family would rush to the table to see who would get the nearest to the sweet cake, some of the small children who would bot have space at the table would be seated at the fire. They would not be pleased because they would bot be able to get as much of the sweet cake as those who would be seated at the table then they would be sorry to see that the best time of Christmas was passed. So they would spare the rest of the food for "New Years Day" and the " Twelfth Day"

St Ronan's the patron saint of Taughmaconnell. Her was not, as fate as can be ascertained, a native of this district. It is said he was an ordered priest. The religious community to which he belonged is not known.
One day, he was going from Ahaseragh to Clonmacnoise. Hes way lay through this parish. He was going through the fields in Shraduff. He stopped at a rick there to say Mass. There was a well beside the rock, which he blessed. Then he went his way.

ago men women and children marched from Oylegate to the well. Hundreds of crutches, sticks and other things were left and jars and bottles of water were brought away to peoples homes who had not the means of coming to the well.

In a place called Ballinaslaney about a mile from the village of Oilgate in Co Wexford there is a blessed well called St David's years ago it was very popular and people come from all parts of Ireland to this well. Many and many cripples and people with other diseases came to be cured. Owing to the field being owned by Protestants the place was closed for a century. One evening two local men were arguing with the great grand son of the Protestant man who closed it and he gave permission to open it once more. Then on a Saturday evening in the year 1910 a man named Abraham Kinsella opened this well. There is an ancient graveyard and a beautiful statue of St David attached to the place. Long ago some very bad invilads slept there all night and even now if you go down you see people praying before the statue particularly on the 1st March the Feast of St Aidan. Long

There are some holy wells near this district. The nearest to us is the blessed well by the side of the road at Lemonstown. It is on the site where the Roman Catholic Church was. There is another blessed well at Tournant. Many sick people visited it and there were some cures reported at Lacken there is another holy well. People come from all parts in hope of a cure and at miton near newbridge there is a well used by the late Father Moore and also a well at Hollywood known as St Kevin's. People troubled with warts are cured there. at all those wells people leave something such as sticks, hair pins, crutches in thanksgiving

South of Hollywood Village
Close to village of Hollywood about 4 miles north from Donard is St Kevin's Chair and St Kevins cave. A statue of St Kevin adorns the rock over the cave. This was erected, about 25 yrs since, by the later Rev Patrick Kavanagh c.c. Hollywood.On either side of the Hell Kettle River one mile cash from Donard is the townalnd of Kilcough. Here it is said a church was built by Dt Cuac from Kilcullen, Co Kildare no trace of this church remains and the [?] is not known

Between Dromard and Hollywood village by Hollywood Glen Rd on the lands of Mr Mc Cormack is a circle of Piper's Stones. Close to these on the north is a large granite boulder with a channel or groove cut north to south crossed in the center by another channel from east to west. This is supposed to be a sacrificial stone. "The Pipers played and the young ladies danced so merrily that fire came from somewhere and burned them ( Pipers and Dances) all up".
(Told to me by Mrs Toomey who lived close by in a farmers house with her husband)P.S. The Blood of the Victim was supposed to flow north, south, east and west The offerer was to face the rising sun