School: Baile Ruadh (roll number 15875)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héaluithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 010
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- (continued from previous page)"Átha Caorach" in Banna strand.The well is noted for its great powers of healing all kinds of diseases. The "rounds" are performed there on the 24th June and 1st May. The people who pay rounds there, say three rosaries, one at the well, one at the altar stone and another while walking around the altar stone and well.When a sick person who visits this well sees a large silvery trout he is immediately cured. It is said that one of the priests that was saying Mass there was caught and killed by the priest hunters and that a blessed well sprang up where he was slain. It is also supposed that the water used to boil there at certain periods(?).One day a neighbour took home a bucket of this water to boil it, but if the water was down since then it would not boil, because this trout (?) in the pail of water.There are three days on which "rounds" are performed there namely the Saturday(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séan Ó Héaluithe
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
