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1. Holy Well - Doon (continued)

   

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   It is not very long ago since a man became blind. He never heard tell of the well. But he dreamt that there was a well in Donegal that would cure him if he were at it,
   He was a poor man and he had no money to pay his way to the well. He begged his way all along till he reached the well.

   When he was within three or four hundred yards of the well he heard a man going past on horseback. He called to the man and asked him if he was far from the well. The man turned back and left him at the well and when the man was coming back on horseback again he met the man who was blind coming from the well and he could see alright then. This well never goes dry.

   The Irish people have a great belief in this well and they go there to get cured of many ailments.

   
   There is a great rock beside this well where Cahir O'Doherty was shot by the English.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Gallagher

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   James Callaghan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Keeloges, Co. Donegal