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School: Tairbeart (C.)

Location:
Tarbert, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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  1. Our Holy Wells

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    There is a well in Tarmons known as St. Senan's. It is in the corner of Buckley's field in Ballintubber.
    This well is not deep and a stream flows out of it. Always in the month of May people pay rounds at this well on every Saturday of the month.
    This is how people pay rounds. People pick up seven pebbles out of the stream and then kneel down at the well and start reciting the Rosary. Then they start at the right hand side of the well and walk slowly all round reciting a decade of the Rosary while going round. At the end
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bernadette O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Gerald O Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Tarbert, Co. Kerry