School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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- 4) "Every year on the 25th of July rounds are paid at the well. Every person who goes throws a pebble in to mark the rounds. Nobody likes to cut bushes around it. There are two other wells near it for household use. Long long ago there used to be tents at the well on the feast of St. James. It is said that one day the people of the well had a fight and that St. James separated them.
Nellie Weekes,
Carrig East (near well)
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- Collector
- Anna May Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrig East, Co. Limerick
- 6) It is said that first the well was further in in the field. A woman washed clothes in it and on the following day it had moved nearer to the road where it is at present. Many people were cured. One of those had a pearl in his eye. His mother(continues on next page)