School: Cluain Uí Chuinn (roll number 5844)
- Location:
- Cluain Uí Choinn, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 279
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“The local saint is St. Eithne (Ina).”
(continued from previous page)This is one of the oldest customs at the well. Some do the pilgrimage for health, for penance, +c.
There is no mention of cures but this is probably due to the feast that there is no written record of the well.
I once heard an old man, who was well over 100 when he died some ten years ago, describe a cure that happened there.
A woman overseeing the fields to do a station was attacked by a cross bullock and while on the ground was gored by its horns, so badly that her entrails were hanging out. help came, and she was carried to the well where she was bathed, and after tying herself up in her apron was able to walk home.
- Informant
- Peter Breslin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Killynagh More, Co. Ros Comáin