School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 560
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- XML Page 560
- XML “Holy Wells”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)side of the road, before you go to the graveyard)
Cures warts. Dip the wart three times in the water, making the Sign of the Cross.
Pat Whyte, (Ballytoole) was cured there.Kilranelagh:-
St Brigid's Well. This well is on the site of the Convent, which St Brigid founded here. A graveyard now surrounds it.
Cures headache.Cloghnagan (Cloc na gceann)
There is a well here, and beside it a stone with a circular hole in the centre.The story told locally about this stone is that St Brigid used go herself to this well for water. She often leant her elbow on this flat stone at the edge of the well, while filling her vessel with water. The stone is known as "St Brigid's elbow" stone. It is in the field adjoining the one in which stands the group of stones known as "St Brigid's Chair""St Brigid's Chair" is in the centre of a field. It is very regular in shape. The stone, which forms the back of the chair, has a cross cut out in it.
- Informant
- John Headon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Knockandarragh, Co. Wicklow
