School: Ballylongford (B.) (roll number 11018)
- Location:
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Mac Cárthaigh
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- The following story was told to me by my uncle Dannie OSullivan.
There is a field in my mother's farm called "The Well-field". The reason why that name was given to it was that there is a well in it. The well is often called "The Botanin Sull". There used be poteen made at that well long ago. One night a man was drowned in the well.
The night was very dark and he did not see the well and he fell into it. He was found in the morning by a man who was passing by. There was no more poteen made in that place ever after. There used be a light seen over the well nearly every night during that year, and the men used be afraid to go near it.
There is a cluster of bushes growing in the spot where the well was and it cannot be seen with them. There were bushes put into it and it was closed up after a few years.
- Informant
- Dannie O' Sullivan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
