Scoil: Béal Átha Gearr

Ar an leathanach seo

1. St Brendan's Well (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   South west of the well is a graveyard in which little children are buried. Doran also built a protecting wall, six feet in height, around the graveyard but this wall is knocked down. About five yards from the well is a stone with a crucifix carved on it. At one end of the field is a swallow hole. There is no protecting wall built around the well.

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2. St Brendan

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

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   The date of the Annual Pattern is the 16th May. People go to the well from 16th May to the last Sunday in July. They go generally on Sundays. The day of the local Saint is the 16th May. St. Brendan died on this day.

   The well is frequented in fulfilment of vows and for the cure of ailments and diseases.

   People go to the well to do Stations. These stations are performed in the following manner: Fourteen flowers or rushes are pulled and beginning at the foot of the cross, the people walk in a circular order, on the path, until they come again to the cross. Then they kneel down and say an Our Father and three Hail Marys and leave a flower after them each time, to count the rounds. Some people take off their shoes and walk on the sharp stones which are scattered inside the walls,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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