School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Baile Dháith, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 182
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- There are not many holy wells in the district. There is a holy well in Tournant, near Dunlavin. It is a big well. There is a very big tree over the well. Any people wjho go to the well leave something after them, such as Medals, Relics, Rosary-beads. I have never heard of anyone who was cured at the well.
There is a holy-well near Talbotstown called Tobernachristhamaun There was a fish in the well and one day a woman by the name of Fenton, brought in the water out of the holy well to boil it for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Arthur Hanlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
