School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)stockings and go around the well on their bare knees three times. They say those prayers everytime they go around the well three Our fathers and three Hail Marys.
Some people wash their feet in the Ballinghlen well because they say it is a cure for sore feet. The people say that the wells in Doonfeeney are a cure for sore eyes.
Some people bring bottles of water from the well and leave little articles after them. There are no fish in those wells and bushes grow beside most of those wells.- Collector
- Pat Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Kilroy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo