School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- There is a holy well near my home. It is called Cartron well because it is in a townland called Cartron.
It is a very holy spot becase it was blessed by St.Patrick. The story thus begins ''St Patrick went to a certain place for his dinner in a townland called Aughnamad(?) where a dog was cooked for his dinner.
Immediately he blessed the dog he leaped up and out over the country. St. Patrick cursed the surrounding district. But a woman followed him to take the curse off the place and it was in Catron that he removed the curse and it was there the well sprung up.
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