School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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- (continued from previous page)prayed at it to get cured. He left a pair of beads at the well. When he reached home he was able to hear well.Some invalids drink the well water, some bathe in it and some rub it to the affected part.There are relics left at the wells in Falmore, Greencastle and Shrove, viz., pieces of cloth and bits of beads.There are no fish in any of the wells. I never heard any stories of people ever trying to desecrate the wells. There are no bushes at any oft he wells.
Author
Patrick Harkin
Falmore
Mary Rose Breslin
Lecamy - With two flails and a threshing board aching my head,
The straw and the chaff flying into my bed,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Breslin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal