School: Nutgrove (roll number 10126)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Emily Ní Aonghusa
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- (continued from previous page)running from under the flag down to where the well is situated now. There is also a grave yard at the back of the well, where children were buried long ago, who died of a plague. There are several marks and stones to be seen still there. The grave yard is of a circular shape, and is higher than the rest of the field. There is a big flag between it and the original well, and one could hardly standing on it, because it is always slippery.
Bridie O'Donovan,
Tubrid,
Shanagolden,
Co Limerick.
- Close by "Manix's Folly" in Lissatotan, Shanagolden, is a well called "Cooley's Well" and it is said that people paid rounds there formerly, and its waters are still used to cure a bad stomach.
John O Farrell.
Gragure,
Shanagolden,
Co. Limerick. - Collector
- John O' Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graigoor, Co. Limerick
