School: Tairbeart (C.)
- Location:
- Tarbert, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- There is a well in Tarmons known as St. Senan's. It is in the corner of Buckley's field in Ballintubber.
This well is not deep and a stream flows out of it. Always in the month of May people pay rounds at this well on every Saturday of the month.
This is how people pay rounds. People pick up seven pebbles out of the stream and then kneel down at the well and start reciting the Rosary. Then they start at the right hand side of the well and walk slowly all round reciting a decade of the Rosary while going round. At the end(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bernadette O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Gerald O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tarbert, Co. Kerry