Once upon a time there lived in Gunsboro (near Listowel) a very wealthy man. He had a servant and one of her duties was to clean the milk pan. A very dry summer came and the servant had no water to get to clean the pans which she informed her master. It happened that there was a blessed well in his land and he told her to get water from the well. She brought it and boiled it and when she thought it should be boiled she took it up and there was a trout swimming on top of the water so she showed it to her master and it was then he told her to take the water back to the well.

Some time ago a farmer went rambling to his neighbours house for a game of cards on a winter's night. It was up to midnight when he left consequently it was very dark and in a short time he missed his familiar path and lost his way completely. He got dazed at the moment as tiny red lights appeared around him which he knew to be those of "Jackie the Lantern". Jackie's delight is to lead people astray in the darkness and to break his charms you are supposed to turn your coat inside out. The man did so and blessed himself and sat down and shut his eyes to keep them off the lights. Just then he heard a rustle in the briars not far from him and who should it be but another gambler who

There is a blessed well in the townland of Ballingeragh. It is in a field owned by Mr Thomas O Brien. This well is dedicated to St. Michael the patron saint of the parish. The people of the parish and the surrounding districts pay visits to the well on the eve of the twenty ninth of September, which is the feast of St. Michael. Many diseases of the eyes have been cured there. There is a tree growing near the well and the people hang medals and ribbons on to it. There is also the ruins of an old church near the well. This church was dedicated to St. Michael and was once the parish church of Lixnaw. The field where the church is situated is known as the "Church field" at the present day. There is a statue

One night a man was dying. He sent his son to fetch the priest. On their way back the horse halted outside a fort and he shied. The priest beat the horse unmercifully for he himself had seen one of the good people and he was nervous and full of sweat. Then he blessed himself and he raised his hand and he cried "Is there anything troubling ye?" A woman came out crying and said "I killed a certain child and I want forgiveness". The priest forgave her her sins

One day a man went to Listowel. It was a fair day. When the evening came he said he would wait for the dance. He waited and not long before that his cousin was buried. However, when he was coming home after the dance he saw a light inside in the field at the left side. He drove on quickly thinking he might be on before the light would be out on the road, but the light was out to the road just as soon as himself. He had a bottle of holy water and a Rosary Beads in his pocket. He took out both and blessed himself and kept his Rosary beads round his neck. Then he heard his cousin that was dead talking to him and he never answered him. Then the light disappeared and the man went home. He was just inside in bed when he was called three times again and he never answered.

Some years ago an old man dreamt that there was gold hidden in a field at the back of Mrs. Slattery's house. One night he got up out of bed and went to dig for the gold. He took with him a Blessed candle, a spade, a shovel, and a pickaxe. When he came to the place that he saw in the dream he started to dig for the gold. After a while he got a crock of gold. When he was about to go home he saw a fierce looking witch coming towards him. She attacked him and they fought for a long time. At last he took the gold from her and it was his own, and he died a fairy afterwards.

little of the well which was blessed.
In times gone by the Banshee (Bean Sidhe) was heard in Tarbert.

boiled is good for the yellow Jaundice. Holy Wells are used by people for different cures. there is a blessed Well situated near the Shannon in the townland of Glendahilan in Ballyheigue. People pray round there for their eyes. It is called in Irish, "Bríd na Súl" There is an old legend attacked to the well. In olden times there as a convent situated near the well. There was a tyrant ruling in Ballyheigue at the time and he sued send out some of his soldiers to bring him in the nicest girl they could find. As they were travelling this day they spied this nun reading her office near the well. The soldiers went about to seize her but she raised her hand asked God to defend her and every one of the soldiers were struck blind at the moment. They went on their knees and implored of her to restore them

it to his own place at Killeen (Oakpark) near Tralee. These men succeeded in getting in the stone into the cart and were bringing it away rejoicing on the high road by Dun dra radharc until they reached the place now called Bullock hill when all at once the cart and bullock broke down and could not be moved another inch further by all powers of Cromwellian bigot. The stone remained there until the Catholic people gathered together and bore it back again and set it up once more beside the well where it remains while the bigot tyrant tried to remove and desecrate it, though a grantee of large in Kerry not a vestage of his Keith of Kain is to be found in old Killeen near Oakpark for many a day. The well supplies a large stream or river now called Thyse river which flows on through Ardfert beside the cathedral grounds to the sea and on to the bunk the Franciscans founded their home at Ardfert in (1252) The river was called the "Gabhra" and must have been much bigger than it is at present for it is told in local tradition that it was in one of those rivers (fifty in number the Latin life) being fishes where blessed

There is a Blessed Well in Tarmons. It is in Buckley's farm. A servant girl went to the well for a bucket of water. When she was coming across the ditch her face turned. She then paid a number of rounds at the well and her face turned again. Another girl went to the same well and she took a bucket of water from it. When she took it home, she put it in the kettle to boil. They said that if was there since, it would not boil. There is a bush over the well and everyone leaves a piece of cloth after them hanging on the bush.

Or if you were suffering from any disease you would be cured from it. St. Senán made a road from Carrig Island to Inis Cathaigh and when he was making it a woman was passing and said that the road was very big and she overlooked it, the shovels would not work for him and he had to leave it there. This road is plain to be seen to this day. A monster serpent circled Scattery Island and he used do great harm killing people and animals, St. Senán banished him into a big lake where he could not come out of. There is also a blessed well in Tarmons named St. Senán's Well, it is said he was passing one day and got very thirsty, he took a stone from the ground and he discovered that there was a Spring there.He took a drink and he said that anyone that would have trust in it would get cured, and this was how it got its name. As he was going away he left a medal with the words Holy Well written on it. At that time

The pattern day some people go to the Blessed Well to get ailments cured, such as stomach complaint, bone disease, and several others.

There is a holy well in Coolard and many people visited it on certain days. The same prayers are said at every well and whilst saying it they make nine rounds. When people visit the well they take a bottle of the water home with them and some moss. The water of the above well cures sore throats and rheumatism. The water of the well is never used for any domestic purpose. There was a scarcity of water and the people took the water from the blessed well. They couldn't get it to boil.

A ploughman was sent one day to plough a maol fort. The man of the house said that if he did not plough it he would not get his dinner. The ploughman went and harnassed the horses to the plough. He started to plough and when he came to the fort he took off his cap and blessed himself and he said "If anything happens it will not be my fault". He drove the horses into the fort and as he did the music started and the horses began to dance so he ran for his employer. He told him to come with him and when he came the ploughman said "try and plough it yourself". He set back the horses and drove them in again and the very same thing happened, and they left the fort as it was.

My mother's uncle tells a story that happened to himself. He had a Parish at Bristol and it was a very large one. At that time every-one rode on horseback because they had no motors. One day, as he was visiting at the outskirts of his parish, he called on one of his friends, and found her quite well. Some time that night he was awakened from a sound sleep, by the clothes lifting off the bed. At first he paid no attention, but in a few minutes it was repeated. He became frightened and jumped out of the bed, dressed, and got the Blessed Sacrament. He got his horse and he saw two girls dressed in white, each holding a lighted candle. He followed them and they

Long ago there lived a saint named Eve next Glendahalin Ballyheigue. She made a vow not to ever change her life. Men used to come to her with promises of marriage but all these she refused. At last they took her with them but she prayed so hard that the men were struck stone blind. The men then begged of her to restore to them their sight. She told them to wash their eyes in a well of water near by and they did so and their eye sight was restored to them. Ever since then this well is blessed well. There is a trout in the well and the people that go there pay rounds and those who see this trout are always cured. It is only those suffering from eye troubles who pay rounds there.

situated in Nolan's field. One day the maid took water from the well. She put it down to cook meat and it never boiled. If it was left over the fire to the present day it would not heat.
Next morning they received word that the blessed well had appeared in a nearby field. There was not a drop of water in its former situation.

clothes in it and then the well dried up and came up again a short distance from the well.
There was a church a few fields to the North of the blessed well. There is no trace of this church now, but there are briars and bushes around the place where the church was. Some people say it was the monks in that church that blessed the well.
Dooncaha (Dún Chatha) Battle Fort. It is said that Dooncaha was covered with trees long ago and that a great battle was at Dooncaha; this battle is said to have lased until it almost reached Listowel.
Farranawanna (Fearann bháin) Milky Land. Bán or lea land.
arhoona (Ceathramha) land quarter.
Meelcon (Maol Con) meaning Bald hill or hounds.
Reenturk (Rinn na dtorc) "Boar's Point" or the point of the boars. Reenturk is only another name for Kilcolgan (Cill Colgan) which means St. Colga's Church.
One small rath 1/2 mile ? 30 W? from

appeared to his sister, Jennie and her husband Richard. He had a holy sword in his hand and he said that it was blessed by the Pope and he said that he was giving it to the two of them. He said to put it behind the shutter of the window when he would be gone. He told them about the gold. The next evening when the sun was going down Jennie, Richard and the servant boy went to the lone fairy-thorn in the Glen and Jennie held the sword in her right hand. She stood under the black-thorn near her husband and the servant boy and they getting their spade and shovel ready. When the servant- boy drove the spade into the earth a great big bull jumped at them, but Jennie held the sword out and the bull ran away. They dug up the ground under the fairy thorn and at last the spade hit something. They got a crock of gold and they were happy for the rest of their lives.

The blessed well is situated in a thick wood near Coolard. the well is shallow and a stream of fresh water flows from it. Many people in the district visit the well three times a year, to pay rounds. They go around the well nine times and they say three rosaries. If they have not the rosaries finished when going around, they kneel by the well and finish them. When they are going home they leave money or holy pictures or pieces of cloth on the tree beside the well. Anyone having sores washes them in the water. They also take three sips of the water and also some water with them. The people living near the