School: Lios Uí Bhigín (B.) (roll number 8791)
- Location:
- Lissyviggeen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Raghallaigh
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In the town of Killarney there is a holy well called St. Mary's well. It is situated at the bottom of a laneway at the back of the new Town Hall. On the 15th of August every year rounds are made. The prayers prescribed for these rounds are the five decades of the rosary. Five rounds are made and a decade of the rosary is said for each round. When the rounds are finished the people bathe their faces or their eyes with the water and drink some of it and take some home .
Frank O'Reilly,
Lissivigeen,
Killarney.
- Collector
- Frank O Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 12
- Address
- Lissyviggeen, Co. Kerry
