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1. Wether's Well - The Soldier who Received Lay Baptism, and the Stream that Was Cursed (continued)

   

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   lay baptism from a poor woman. It was this same soldier who directed soldiers to where the priest was celebrating Mass.
   The well that sprang up where the weathers first appeared is called ever since "Weather's Well" or "Tobar na Molt" in Irish. People come there from far & near to be cured. They have to pay rounds at the well and say prayers.
   Long ago in the time of St. Brendan there were a great many monks in the large monastery at Ardfert. In this stream that flows from the well there were a lot of fish at one time but no fish at all are found there now. This is the reason - One day one of the monks was walking along by the stream. Some one was fishing in the stream and he caught a salmon. The monk asked him for the fish. The man told him he would give him the next one as this was a fairly big fish, and he thought that if he caught another he might be smaller and that he would give that one to the monk. He caught another, but

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mícheál Ó hUallacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Paddy Shea

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   53

   Address

   Barrow, Co. Kerry