School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)some way and the well dried up. It is said that some person took water to cure cattle and the well dried up immediately. The water sprang up at a place 200 yards away and this spring can be seen at the present day. On a height in the same field about 200 yards away is a rath surrounded by two mounds.
The other well Tubberadonagh is in the townland of Ballyeighter at the northern side of the parish. Of this well it is said that the water would not boil, no matter how long exposed to heat. A pattern was held there on the 10th July in a field called 'Pairc an Tobair' and the people called the day 'Lá na Spionáin'.
Nora Moynihan
Bullaun,
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- Collector
- Teresa Flannagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ben More, Co. Galway