School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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- (continued from previous page)Carrowkeel, Crossmolina, Co mayo. It is about a hundred yards off the Belmullet road. It is situated on a little hillock. There is an old wall round it, and it is almost covered on the top by a small stone.
There is a bush growing beside it and it is almost spread out over it. Long ago people came in crowds to it on the last Sunday of July to perform the stations. Now a days very few people go to it.
There is a trout in the well and people say that whoever sees the trout or the well boiling gets the request of their stations. Some people sit along the well watching to see if they see the well boiling or the trout in it after they perform their station.
There is a story told about that trout. People say that a man caught the trout and brought it home with him. He had it on the tongs cooking it.
When he was about to turn it. It leaped off the tongs and ran out the door and up and jumped into the well. It is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Caden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Caden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
