School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- The following are the holy wells in my locality: - St Bride’s Well at Clonfad, Co Roscommon, is about six miles from Carrick-on-Shannon.
Tradition holds that this well changed its original position as a seeming protest to the sacriligious use to which the blessed water was put when a pagan woman washed her dog in it. Some give to understand that the well was once situated in Kildare and moved to Clonfad, to a spot under a tree, where a man was praying while others hold that it moved from one place in Clonfad to another.
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