School: Convent of Mercy, Rinn an Chabhlaigh, Cóbh
- Location:
- Ringacoltig, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Peadar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 022
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- (continued from previous page)known as the "Informer Tory Carroll."
There's another well in Kilfinane called the "Blessed Virgin's Well." They used go and pray at this well. The custom was to make three visits each Saturday or Sunday for three days. On the third day a piece of cloth was hung on a tree which grew over the well. Numbers of people were cured at it. Often water from the well used be taken home and applied to the affected part of the body, others used take it and drink it. About one hundred years go a poor woman was passing by and went down to the well and washed her baby in the blessed water. Then after she had taken out the child the well removed from the place where it had been and went down to the bottom of the field near the brink of a river. The dried-up well is still there but large trees are thrown across it.
On the hill of Ard-Patrick there is a holy well called "St Patrick's Well" because St. Patrick stood there long ago. It is situated in an old churchyard.
- Collector
- Georgina Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs M. Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
