School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)
- Location:
- Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)wall there are two wells. A big one in the centre and one on the right side of it. People go to it on the 29th of June. There is a tree beside this well and water goes up this tree from the well on twelve o’ clock the night before the 29th of June. There is a hollow in the tree and only a cupful fits in it. No matter how many cupfuls is taken out there is always a cupful left. People take off their shoes and walk a-round in the well saying each time one Our Father, one Hail Mary and a Gloria. Then they go around two wells making the stations. When they have this done they drink a cupful of the water. There is a steep hill beside the well and the strange part is that a stream flows up against the hill. At the top of the hill there is a rock and if you rub your back to it you will get cured of lumbago.
Anna Finn Told by:-Pat Waters,
Rinbane,
Ballinacarrow,
Ballymote
- Collector
- Anna Finn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Waters
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
