School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Riabhach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 274
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- There is a holy well in Ballyhae. It is called "Our Lady's Well". People visit is especially on the 8th of December and they say the rounds. About twenty years ago a gipsy woman washed her child in it. Later the child became a priest.Saint Colman's Well. There is another well in Colmanwell and it is called Saint Colman's Well. There is a cure for eyesight in it. When Mr De Valera was going to school he had very bad sight.
One day a woman brought him to the well and washed his eyes with the water. His sight was much better after that. A few years ago he went to Switzerland to have his eyes operated on. When he came home he went and washed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Harrison's Place, Co. Cork
