School: Bulgaden (C.), Kilmallock (roll number 13791)
- Location:
- Bulgaden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Isibéal, Bean Uí Bhriain
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- (continued from previous page)St. Patrick's Well is situated quite near the school at the rear of Bulgaden Hall. It is supposed to have changed its site long ago on account of some person washing in the water of the well.It was always frequented by people suffering from colds, coughs or chills.The person affected should come, on three successive mornings and drink of the water and pray at his own discretion. On the third morning he was cured.It is lined with bricks supposed to be made from local clay. It was profaned on one occasion and this is how the story is told.-One Miss Devane, a Protestant, used to 'patronise' this school and take the teachers and children for an annual picnic. Once they went to the wood where the blessed well is, and every time Miss Devane partook of its waters, she threw in a florin to the bottom of the well. No one knew what she meant by this, but probably it was to pay for the drink and fearing her drinking the water would be looked on as an act of devotion.Later on, a man who lived near and who was very fond of drink, [?] the well to get the money. He said he found none, but that very evening he died suddenly coming out of a local publichouse where he had been drinking: His death was attributed locally to his profane action.
