School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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- (continued from previous page)Then they creep to the big well and do the same as before. Then they go to the small well and do the same.
Long ago a girl travelled the world looking for a cure for rheumatism. She came to this well to be cured and when she was cured she left two gold sticks at the well. When she was on the car at the she got sorry for her sticks.
She went up again for them and the rheumatism came back again and she was never cured again.
The people take three drops of water when they have finished. If the station is for oneself the person brings no water home and if it is for another they bring a bottle of water home with them.Briget Moyles,
This was told to me by my father
Michael Moyles.
Derreen.
- Collector
- Bridget Moyles
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Moyles
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 46
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo
