There are a lot of blessed wells in the parish of Glynn. St Mum's Well is in Brown's bastle about a mile from Laghmon. There is a rock just beside the well in the shape of a bed, and it is called St. Mum's Bed. If anybody with a weak spine or had a pain in their back, lay down in the bed, they would be cured. The well beside it was also very famous for curing, but people don't visit it as often as they used.
There is a well in Ardcandrish about three and a half miles from the town of Wexford. St. Eusbius is the patron Saint. It is a great well for curing sore eyes and headaches, and it is

at this well, such as, medals, bandages, beads and many other things.
There is another blessed well in barrigmannon, dedicated to St. Laurence. It was a great well for curing sore eyes. Some people would tell you that it almost cure anything. The old habits and customs are not kept up regarding this well at all for all the local people get whatever water they require for their own use out of it.
There is another well in Barmoney and it is not known what Saint it is dedicated to. It is a great well for curing the tooth-ache, but it will cure other things as well. There are a lot of articles left at this well also by people that were cured. Once there were

a lovely pair of gold earring left at the well by a woman that was cured of ear-ache. Some woman stole them and wore them. Her two ears swelled up to an awful size, and they got very painfull. Somebody asked her what was the matter with her, and she told that she had stole earring from the blessed well. She was then told to bring them back and she did so, with the result that she got cured of all her troubles.
The woman that told me this story told me that she herself was binding corn in a field near the place where the well was, and there were other woman binding in the same field. This woman and another woman went out to the well to see it some time

saying it was a very unlucky thing to do to take anything away from a blessed well escept water. So she brought back the rose and left it where she got it. When she was coming back from the well the pain left her, and in a few minutes was as well as ever.
There is another well in Ballinaslany, St. David is the patron St. It is a famous well for curing almost everything, sore eyes, head-aches, tooth-aches and pains of all kinds. It also cured cripples. My father and mother went over to see the well a few years ago and they saw an old man with a crutch and a walking kneeling clown beside the well and he praying. It was not long until he got up and was perfectly cured and he left

the crutch and walking-stick behind him! My father and mother were looking on at this miracle happening and it is the fact truth. There are a lot of old crutches and walking-sticks and medals and various other things left at this well.
There are two or three other wells in the parish but they are almost exstinct, and the old customs are not kept up. But there was one thing certain, every well was famous for its curing powers, and the old people had great belief in them.
Ther is a great stone cross in the middle of the damstown graveyard and there used be a blessed well beside it. St. Abbon was the patron Saint of this well and this cross was erected.

over his grave. The cross is about ten or eleven feet high, and the old people say it was five or six feet higher many years ago, but it was broken in the time of the Rebellion.
Any person that would stand with his back to the cross and meet his hands around it would never have a pain in his back. The well that was beside the cross went dry one time and it rose up in a field a few hundred yards away from the graveyard, and it is known to this day as "cobar ban". There is also another well up in Adamstown called the "white well" and another well which is not a blessed well at all called "Fior-uisee well" pronounced "fee-rish eh"

walking down in the direction of the rath. There was a certain man some years ago owned the field in which the rath is, and was going to plough it. He intended ploughing the rath as well, but before he did so he went and asked the advice of the priest. The priest told him not to have anything to do with the rath, as he would never have any luck. So he took the priest's advice and didn't meddle with the rath.
I got this tale from Eddie Coady Wilkenstown, Whitechurch aged 95 years, and he also told me that there was a blessed well not very far away from the rath called Our Lady's well, It was a great well for curing diseased of all kinds, and there were crutches and other articles found at it,

There is a story told about St. Abban's Well. Long ago a woman washed dirty clothes in. The well was at that time in the graveyard. But after washing the clothes the well moved out of the place, and sprang up anew in a field belonging to Mr. O' Gorman about a mile away. Many people used go to this well to be cured.
It is said that if you had any sickness, and made nine journeys to the well, and left some blessed thing there, that you would be cured.
There are stories in this well, called "blood-stones", and it is said that they are supposed to cure the tooth-ache.

Pattern Day all the young men, ay! and some of the old men too, used to spend hours trying it.
There is a Blessed well there too.
It is said that the well was first in Adamstown but that a woman washed clothes in it and that it disappeared under ground, and sprung up again about a mile away.
The waters of this well are said to be great to cure toothache.

There was an ould thatched chapel in Whitechurch - it must be hundreds of years ago. Some of the old walls can be seen there yet.
There is a blessed well near it and it is called "The Lady's Well".
Close by, near the hill of Wicleamstown [?] there are seven wells together. They are called "The Seven Wells".

There are two blessed wells in Tomhaggard, St. James's and St. Annes. St. James' well cures all kinds of pains, and St. Annes was supposed to cure nearly any kind of a complaint. The feast of St James is celebrated on the twenty fifth of July, and St. Annes on the twenty-sixth.
The water used to be sold out of St James well on the great day, the twenty fifth. An old woman would sit at the well, and sell a tumbler of water for a penny, and anyone who wanted would buy the water would have a year's health.
St. Patrick's well is at Kilmore Quay. It is in a rock, and everytime the tide comes in, it goes into the well. When the tide goes out again

the water of the well is as clear as crystal. A lot of the village people use this water. There are not many cures recorded from this well.
St. Bridget's well was in Brideswell for anumber of years and it used to cure various diseases, but suddenly it went dry, and it came up again in Longridge and twelve candles burning around it about a mile away from Brideswell, and it is up on a bank over a river. It is there a good while now, and there are a lot of beads and medals and other things there, which prove that the well can cure.
There are a lot of blessed wells in this country and nearly everyone of them can cure something and people have great belief in them.

The Pattern of Kilcowan Graveyard (near Baldwinstown) is held on 15th August.The Pattern of Kilmore Graveyard is held on 17th March.There is a Blessed Well just near Baldwinstown called Slánsmaid Well (Slán méad)?

There was a man living long ago in Bannow and he drove the devil to hell wan time. Himself and another man were coming home wan night and they saw a light. The other man was afraid of his life. When they cam up to it they saw the figure standing. As soon as they came up to it the figure came towards them.
"In the name of the Blessed Trinity" said this man, go back to wherever you came from, and do harm to any man in this earth". Whatever it was, and sure I suppose it was the devil, he went off in a ball of fire, and there was never a light or anything seen there after.

there is a blessed well, and it is said that long ago, several people got cured there.
In olden times there was a landlord there by the name of Varea.
During his time a bell used be always heard ringing in the graveyard every night; but when he died the bell was never heard ringing again.

There was an ould chapel near the giant's grave and a blessed well also. St Cuan is the patron of it; and in olden times patterns used be held there. But there is no wan now living that remembers anything of 'em.
The bell of the old church is supposed to be buried near the door. But no wan ever went to dig for it.
There were a couple of families of Quakers living there long ago. But they're all dead and gone.

My grandmother told me how Dwyer's wife and 3 more of the mountainy women caried the dead bodies of McAllister & Costello & Savage on their backs and buried them at Kilranelagh.____When the soldiers hung Moore over the blessed well at Rathdangan for shooting [Hume] he said "Let no man be hung for his death only me." They put Moores

Blessed Wells
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When I was [?]young they'd send for a little man when they'd be about to build a house. His name was Mickey Neill and they used to say he was going with them. They'd send for him and he'd know if there was a pass where they were going to build - a pass for the dead or for the good people.
Then they'd put down the pegs and leave them for so many nights. If they weren't removed by the end of that time they'd know that they could build away. I never saw anything put in the foundations of a dwelling-house or of a cow-house except a little medal blessed by the priest.

The following pages are written in connection with your circular "Items about which ....." Information from my father or such as was universally current during my young days (1900 - 1914)
Placenames: "The Holly Bush, halfway between Castletown U Grague na spidogue, on the high road. Famous meeting place for gossips from time immemorial. Townland of "leainac". The stumps of the old holly bush was extent which I was a youth. Tinryland. Top of the little hill on wh. school, chapel & houses are built is perfectly flat; ideal for a bowling green (réileáin). Some old people held the view that the name: tig ríng an oiléain. Lower Tinryland was called "crógibín" Well said to be blessed. Cloughna on the Barrow, near Milford,puzzled me very much until I found in the inquisitions of 1606, item Cloughna, alias New Stone (ie Cloc Nuad). Tendency in Leinster to wake "Nu" single cousoned like QU. Old Road from Tinryland to KyleBallyhue ran thro' Castletown & is still used a "mass path". Some of the old is still intact except that it is overgrown with grass. Protestant owner of E Tinryland built a beautiful double ditch in an effort to entice the people from the mass path & thus break their right of way. All in vain, however. The double ditch was never used by the people. The part of this old road still in public thro Kyle is called the "Dark Road". Commons. The little village of Connaberry, adjoining Ballon was a common when I was