School: Dromcollchoille (B.)
- Location:
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Mathghamhna
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- On Christmas Night it is said that all the water changes into wine. One girl would not believe it, and she sat near St. Benjamins well in Tullylease. When twelve-o-clock came she dipped her finger into the well, to taste the water, and her finger stayed inside. That is why the place around there is called Poul-a-Vere, the hole of the finger
- Collector
- Donal Linehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carroward East, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Carroward East, Co. Limerick