School: Caisleán na Leacht, Droichead Banndan (roll number 8972)
- Location:
- Castlenalact, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Cochláin
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- Upton
on the High Road.Sundays well.
(up on the side of the cliff marked by stone with a cross on it.) No saint connected with it. Mass was said here in 1929 by Fr. O' Connor US.P.Lady's Well.
Near Sunday's well connected with the B. V. M.*Murphy's well Kilmore.
Hawthorn bush growing over it. Superstition if you break bit off haw thorn well will go dry. There is supposed to be a fairy eel in well, and you will get your request if he appears. People made rounds here about 60 years ago.Sheehans well.
Tobar na Lice. Holy well also in Kilmore.
[?]Calitrum with hawthorn bush also. *The stream out of Murphy's well is Srutainín na Leamnheachta (new milk). It is said that the gold Diarmud Stutha McCarthy stole from the Bank in Kinsale (1725?) was buried "idir Srutainín na Leamneacta agus Crois a leanaibh"Murphy Kilmore
