Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 1)

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1. The Three Holy Wells (continued)

   

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   place, and see what was best to be done about the matter. The bishop came, and he made enquiries about the well, and tradition says (and tradition says) that he walked over the grounds, and that every place he touhed with Chrisma well sprang up, and the last well he called "St Jamese's well. He oppened six wells in all, and there are sic wells to be seen to the present day in the vicinity of the holy well. People visit St Jamese's well and do stations there up to the present day, the time of the years for visets is believed to be between the Saints' day and the fifteenth of August. Other people say that the correct time to visit the holy well is the Friday before St Jamese's day, on the Saints' day and ton the Friday after.
   Tobar Ellive. There was a cross erected over this well by Dr Coyne bishop of Elphin.
   Legend has it, that it is not Ellive who is buried at Ballinashee although the well is called after her, but Lasser, as the mountain was supposed to be too lonely a place in which to bury a lady.
   Cures are supposed to have take place at tobar Ellive. It is said that if a person lies for three nights on the tombstone, that he will get cred of what ever disease he is ailing from.
   Date for visits is between 15 August and 8th September.

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   History Edit

   Date

   5 December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • John Bruen