School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)There is a holy well at Lasser about two miles from Ballyfarnon. People visit it of the 15th August. There is stone there and if a person goes in and out under it three times it is said that he never will have a pain in his back.
Near Geevagh there is a holy well called St James' Well. It is visited on the 25th July each year and Stations of the Cross are made. Rags are tied on the trees that are around it.
- There are not many holy wells in this parish. There is a holy well in Tawnagh which St Patrick visited this place on travels long ago. Over the well on the hill he built(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Keaney
- Gender
- Female
