School: Sean-Bhaile Mór (roll number 15817)

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1. Cappagh Well (continued)

   

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   of this ground as an addition to his adjoining field. He sowed oats in the field but none grew in the new piece for some years. Later on crops grew in it but when the owner was making a track in the new piece he was mysteriously thrown against it and broke his leg.

   A few yards from the wells there is a horse-shoe shaped structure, the walls being four or five high on the outside, but the inside appeared to be somewhat filled up. This is called the 'Altar'. Across the new road there is a mound of stones about the same height four faced. On the western face there is a smooth faced block of limestone inset. A number of horizontal and vertical cuts on the face of this stone make a number of crosses. When people are making the stations they make the crosses on this stone by drawing a finger vertically and horizontally, three times, on the lines.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Donovan

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Dunmore, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Michael Bones

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   30

   Address

   Cappagh, Co. Galway