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School: Béal an Dá Chab (roll number 14225)

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Ballydehob, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Risteárd O Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 273

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    on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays to pray. If a person had a toothache and took a drink from the well on any one of these days which I have named he would be cured. There is no account of the origin of the wells holiness, but there is a slope about three hundred yards from the well called Leaca na h-Altóra which means the slope of the altar. There is a big stone on the slope, and it may have been used as an alter long ago, and perhaps water from the well used to be used as the water for the wine at mass.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Vincent Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballydehob, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Collins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycummisk, Co. Cork