School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)they get cured.
The well in Dysart is called Tobar Boicin and it is almost covered with a tree too. It is in Kiernan's land beside the road. There are pieces of cloth and pins left on this tree. Long ago this well was not in Dysart but in Taughboyne (Loughnavalley). One day a woman washed clothes in this well and that night it was gone. People searched for it and they found it in Dysart with the tree beside it as it was in Taughboyne. Since it was desecrated people do not go near it.
There is another well in Bryanstown but no one uses it nor does it cure anything.
- Collector
- Oonagh Nugent
- Gender
- Female
