School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)
- Location:
- Derryoober West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan Mac Diarmuda
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0369
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Doire Iubhair
- XML Page 0369
- XML “Our Holy Wells”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- If a person travels Ireland he will see a good deal of holy wells at holy places. There is two situated in this parish. The most important of those two in Derrycrag which lies a couple of miles west of the Shannon.
People from a good distance visit that place in the month of July. It is said to be able to cure a lot of diseases and sores. When the [well] is being visited the people take off their shoes and stockings and go around praying on their knees. When they have a round completed they can start again and do as many as they wish.
The well in Derrycrag is called after St. Brendan and the well in Ahanass is called after St. Ann. the people always visit St. Ann's well on the three last Sundays in May. There is a little bush beside this well and when the people are going away from the well they leave a piece of cloth on the bush or sometimes a flower.
- Informant
- Mrs J. Mulvehil
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Derryoober West, Co. Galway
