School: Inch, Borris
- Location:
- Clanagh, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Michael J. O'Donoghue
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- (continued from previous page)get some of the holy water before they cross the sea. There is a rhyme about the well. Shipwreck never once befellThose who drank from Fiachra's well.
The people of the district go there on a certain day of the year to visit the graves of their friends.St Fianna is also traditionally connected with this district. He had his church in a field in Tom Kavanagh's farm of Tinnecarrig. The ruins of the old church and graveyard are there still. There is no one buried there now.There is a holy well dedicated to his honour. The water from the well is able to cure warts. The water of the well is never used for anything. The field is called the church field. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Josie Fanning
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyroughan Little, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mr John Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyroughan Little, Co. Carlow