School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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- XML “Holy Well and White Trout - Tobar na Croí”
- XML “The Lucky Bit in Some Dropped Calves' Mouths”
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- (continued from previous page)tot he kettle and took off the cover. He looked into it, and saw a white trout inside.
The priest told the woman to take back the water to the well, and he said the white trout was an angel.
The woman did as the priest told her, she put back the water to the well, and never went there again for water.
It is recognised as a holy well ever since. - When some calves are born, there is a little bit of flesh in their mouths, which they are sucking before they come into the world, and some people used to say, it was very lucky if a person got that bit, and when you(continues on next page)