School: An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuileanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0297, Page 141
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- Around Skibbereen there are several blessed wells but I know only a couple of them and now I am going to tell you a few stories about these wells. Sceabhar well is situated near Lough - Ine. On the 30th of April every year crowds of people are to be seen praying and making the rounds: every time a person goes around the well they drop a white stone into the well, and along side the well there is a white thorn bush; on this bush people tie old rags, but the last couple of years very few(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Ó Drisceóil
- Gender
- Male
