Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

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   “There was two youngsthers at wan time, a boy, an a girl.”

   

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   for that bad turn, might be jusht the start o' their good luck.

   

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2. Legends of Two Local Wells

   

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   Legends of two local Wells

   Tobar-na-bainne - This well is to be found in the town land of Derrymore. It is one of the best springs in the district. It is drained by a stream, which flows about a hundred yards out of the well, and then disappears. Nobody can tell, where it disappears to, however. It is said that the well got its name on account of the many people who came to it in older times, for water to wash their butter, for it was believed that no other spring water in the district was as good for making butter, as the water from Tobar-na-bainne.
   The Legend concerning the well, as told my Mr Harte, is as follows-
   Ye know in ould times when the battle o' Moytura was goin' on, there was a great scarcity o' wather. an' the nearesht spring-well to the battle-field was tobar-na-bainne, for every other well, had dhried up, on account o' the drought that yhear.
   Anyways Oiliol, that was wan o' the chieftains names

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   Date

   17 April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Dominic Mac Airt