School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273
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- There is only one holy well in our parish. It is but seven or eight hundred yards from our house, in a field the property of Dan Gallagher, Mulnamina.
Tobar na Faoileoige is the name of this well and it is said that every priest who came to the parish blessed it and left his office at it.
People also say that there was a girl sick in Aran More island long ago and that a seagull came to Tobar na Faoileoige, took the white stone from the well, and dropped it in the bed of the sick girl.
From that moment she began to recover and that is why it is called Tobar na Faoileoige.
The prayers said at this well are 5 Paters and 5 Aves for the person who hopes to be cured, one Pater and one Ave(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Mullins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal
