School: Kilmacow (B.) (roll number 14187)
- Location:
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0843, Page 058
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- There is a holy well in a field belonging to Patrick Walsh Mooncoin and it is called Tobar Na Cille. The marks or prints of the saint's knees and elbows can be seen in the ground near the well. It is said that if anyone should drink the water in it they would be cured of any cuts or sores. There was once a chapel in the field. There are many prayer books rosary beads and crosses around the well. Once a man closed it in and next morning he found that two of his cows were dead. It is said that if anyone should drink of the water they must leave a prayer book or some similar object to it there.
- Collector
- Richard Dunphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Walter Dunphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Narrabaun South, Co. Kilkenny
