School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- Saint Surney is our local saint. She lived in Drumacoo, about a mile from here. There is a graveyard at present round her house. Her bed is inside the graveyard gate.
A well known as St Surney's Well is situated in a field beside the graveyard. If a person is subject to a constant headache he goes to this well for a cure. He goes to the well(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Kealy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Michael Kealy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway