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  1. Blessed Well

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    CBÉ 0220

    There is a Blessed Well near the chapel in Littlecullenstown. It was blessed by a priest named Father O Sullivan. He blessed it in honour of St. Anthony and left it as his memorial.
    People came to him from all parts to be cured, so it was for this reason that he blessed the well; so that when he was gone the well could have the same effect on those who believed they could be cured by it.
    In the cemetery in Clongeen there is a well called St. Mogue's Well, and people go there with their ailments leaving little relics in honour of St. Mogue after them.

  2. (gan teideal)

    “Captain Ogle when he was doing the damage here in Ireland....”

    CBÉ 0221

    There are two blessed wells in the vicinity of Ballyhogue. St Mary's and St Tebitts. Both of them are great wells for curing. St Mary's well is a great well for curing almost any kind of a cmplaint and St Tebitts is a great Well for curing a headache. Wexford is a famous County for blessed wells, as there is one or two of them in almost every parish.

  3. Sonnet Sequence on the Shepherds at the Crib

    CBÉ 0485

    XIII. All kneel, and praise the mercy of their lord.
    Praise the lord for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. -Ps. exxxv.
    Praise we the lord, for all the good he’s done; whose tender mercy cannot ever desary: none doth great wonders, but our god alone; and his wonderous mercy shall endure for aye; he made the heavens, with a sole command; his mercy showers more from day to day; he made the earth, above the waters stand; his mercy all creation doth survey; he lit the sky, with every grade of light; his mercy doth, his other gifts outweigh; the sun, the day, the moon to rule the night; oh, praised and blessed, his mercy be alway; blessed be the lord, for all the good he’s done; blessed be the one in three, and three in one.

  4. 'Trane' Water

    CBÉ 0189

    turnips.
    Most of the farmers go to Grantstown Chapel to have the water blessed. But others, when the priests come around to the houses for their annual collection, get it blessed at home.
    The trane water is generally shaken on the Rogation Days.
    There was a farmer who lived near Taghmon wan time and he wanted to see the effect of the water on the tranes. He got a lot of tranes and put them into a bottle of trane water (that had been blessed).
    I suppose he wanted to give 'em a right dart.

  5. The Three King's Sons

    CBÉ 0265

    and they went outside and they kicked up a row and the police came along and one of them was taken to the barracks and put into jail and locked up the way he couldn't get out Seamus was annoyed over this and what ever way they managed it they paid his way and got him out Before they got him out this little man came came again and told Seamus that there was a hill out there and it was all gold and he says "No one can get at that hill unless they've a bottle of blessed water So Seamus told his two brothers and one of them got the bottle of blessed water out of the chapel and started off [He/They?] met with a little child on the way up and the child asked [him/them?] for a drink and he said he wouldn't give him a sup So he went on farther and he had very little in the bottle for it was a dry time and he

  6. Loch gCarman - Teach Munna (Taghmon)

    CBÉ 0189

    in Taghmon. He is supposed to have rested on a ledge of rock now known as "St. Munn's Bed"_ while on his journey.
    The prints of the Saints head and feet are said to be seen on the bed, and it is said that several people were cured of various disease by lying on this bed. He was bringing with him a celtic cross, which can be seen still inside the Gales of the protestant church. This church was taken from the Catholics during the Revolution near St. Munn's Bed. is a Blessed Well. Several people used make "sounds" to it up to forty years ago. It was also said that many people were cured there. The date of the pattern.
    In the time of Cromwell, we are told that some of his army passed by this place and that some of his soldiers washed clothed in the Blessed Well. The well

  7. Micky the Smith turns Theologian

    CBÉ 0485

    to the forge, but Micky was never on the besht o' terms wit the Protestants. He was a Northman himsel from Enniskillen, an' o' courche he saw the Protestants in their thrue colours there, even though they war friendly enough wit him round here, an he always thried ta pick an argument wit them, an' ta have the besht o' them whenever they came into the forge.
    Micky was shoein' a horshe for wan o' the local Protestants wan day, an' however he managed to sthart the argument wit him, it wound round to a pretty hot discussion on religion, an' the subject o' the discussion was, if ever there was such a person as the Blessed Virgin.
    Micky got the betther o' the Protestant in that argument however, an' he succeeded in forcin' it down his neck that the Blessed Virgin did really live, but the Protestant then wanted ta claim, that if she lived itself, she was no betther than the ordinary run o' women. Take for inshtance sez he, your mother or my mother, what was she betther than any o' them. Well sez Micky, an' him givin the horshe-nail that he was dhrivin a fairly vicious rap o' the hammer, if she washtnt, there is a quare differ between the two sons.

  8. Adamstown (Baile Abbáin) - The Blessed Well (St Abban's Well)

    CBÉ 0189

    There is a blessed well in Adamstown called Abban's Well, because St.Abban is the patron Saint, and he blessed it.
    A pattern is held there every year on , and it is reckoned to be one of the biggest patterns in the country.
    All the people who have friends and relations buried in the Graveyard visit it, "dress up" the graves, and afterwards make their "rounds" to the Well. This custom is held all over the County Wexford. The people visit their dead once a year. That is, they clean off the grass off the graves and put flowers on them.
    There is a special day - a Sunday - every year in each district, or for every graveyard, for the pattern.

  9. Taghmon

    CBÉ 0189

    There was a blessed well near the cemetery.
    Just opposite the present chapel, on the other side of the road down a laneway, there is also a blessed well, called [?] Munna. Long ago, people used make rounds to this well.
    At Brown’s castle a place about a mile and a half from Taghmon, there is another well, called St Munn’s Well, and also near this well, is a place called St. Munn’s Bed.
    The biggest fairs in the county need be held in Taghmon. Twenty one fairs were held every year. On the 28th of May every year was held a fair, known as the “Hiring fair.” For boys and girls used to come to this fair from all over the county to be hired as servants.
    In the evening they used all be fairly many

  10. (gan teideal)

    “It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work"...”

    CBÉ 0190

    There were two men wan day walking along the road and there came a great whirlwind. Wan o' the men blessed himself and jumped out of the way and told the the other fellow to do the same. The other man said "what harm will it do you". "Oh" says the other "what harm will it do to bless yourself."

  11. (gan teideal)

    “There is a blessed well in Ballyhogue called "the cuckoo well".”

    CBÉ 0221

    There is a blessed well in Ballyhogue called "the cuckoo well" The cuckoo used to come to the well every year. She would always light on the well to rest after landing and she would stop there for two or three nights and days. This well would cure a person in decline if they would drink

  12. (gan teideal)

    “I was comin' home wan night from a wake.”

    CBÉ 0221

    stopped all of a sudden and the next place I heard it was about 20 or 40 yards ahead o’ me, and the same rumblin’ noise to be heard. I got a kind of fright then an’ I blessed meself, for I had come to my own conclusion. It was the dead coach that was in it.

  13. (gan teideal)

    “When the soldiers hung Moore over the blessed well...”

    CBÉ 0265

    When the soldiers hung Moore over the blessed well at Rattdanga for shooting Hume he said "Let no other man be hung for his death only me." They put Moores

  14. Beliefs and Customs

    CBÉ 0407

    Mise: "Bail ó Dhia oraibh"
    beau Uí an Phuist: "Brighid 's Muira dhiut"
    [Extract from my lecture mentioned above:
    "Go into any house in this parish with the usual Bail ó Dhia oraibh & the invouiable greeting is Brighidh 's Muire dhiut. The fact that the name of Brighid is put first is no slur on the B.V.M. It is in accordance, dar hom, with the with the Irish language, wh. like Latin, gives priority of place to the first person (grammatical). What greater honour could possibly be given to a native saint than that her name should replace that of God in popular salutations"]
    Miss Ryan: When [?] girrse 's we picked the [?] in Páirc na Ruisilí (ainm páirce i nGlas-Drom) every St Brigid's Eve & got our father, God bless his soul) to make the crosses for us. I am afraid that there are a lot of people who don't get St Brigid's ribbon blessed now-a-days. You put out a ribbon, a piece of linen or calico or anything like that the night before. Hang it on the back door or on a hook if there's one handy, & the ribbon will be blessed in the morning. You should leave a shief of oats on the door step & leave a cake of bread on it, or a piece of a cake. That ribbon

  15. (gan teideal)

    “It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them.”

    CBÉ 0190

    It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them. On the root of every fern J.C can be seen.
    When the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph and Our Lord were preparing to fly into egypt, they went first of all and got a cow to carry them, but she wouldn't go so. Then Our Lord said that he would put some pennance on the cow. So he said to the cow, "you will always have

  16. (gan teideal)

    “There was a blessed well wan time an' it used to cure all kinds...”

    CBÉ 0221

    There was a blessed well wan time an; it used to cure nearly all kinds of complaints. There was wan man and he made a regular (?) of the well. He had a dog at that time and he got a sore paw, and he went to the well and there was somebody there and he threw the dog inta it for sport saying in a mockin' way that the dog would be cured when he would take him out. When he did pull out the dog he was dead. So afterwards he gave up makin fun of the well.

  17. (gan teideal)

    “I was comin' home wan night and when I came as far as Jem Croy's Cross...”

    CBÉ 0221

    I was comin' home wan night and when I came as far as Jim's Croy's Cross I saw a great green light and it in a kind of a circle Half of the circle was in the road and the other half was inside the field. I didn't know what to do whether I ought to pass it or not, and I stood there for some time, an' the light seemed to come up out of the ground in small little flames. Anyhow I blessed myself and went on and when I was goin through it, it changed into white and rose up in great flames and went off down in the bogs. I don't know what the meaning of it is except it has somethin' to do with fairies, for it is said that there was a fairy rath not far from that place. Anyhow I got home safe that night, and I don't care.

  18. The Three King's Sons

    CBÉ 0265

    was taking a up himself He met with another little lad on the way and he asked him for a drink and he wouldn't give him any So he went on up to this little man lying on his back and he asked him for a sup and he wouldn't give it and the little man turned him into a big black stone So this other wicked brother started off and he done the same Then Seamus got a quart of water blessed by the priest and started off and he met a child on the road and gave him a sup out of the bottle when he asked for a drink and he met another little man and he gave him a sup and he met a dog that was dying

  19. Kilmachree Chapel

    CBÉ 0460

    Cill Mhic Croí, Co. Loch Garman

    as he soon came to be known as, and they all departed in astonishment and strenghtened by his holy advice as he went to speak to everyone who desired to speak to him. He paid great and tender attention to children and young people and he recollected everyone he has once before spoken to. He was never known to accept any gift except wine for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Everything else he would advise the persons who brought it to give it to the poor. Years passed by and he practised the same pious life all along but soon his strength began to fail him and in the end about June 1824 death was stareing him in the face & he died on the 21st August of the same year. He was buried within the little chapel of Kilmachree where he had so long through Summer and Winter alike knelt and prayed and wept. His death was mourned by everyone, the county of Wexford over because everyone who ever heard of him visited him to get blessed by the

  20. Sick Call

    CBÉ 0485

    A priest attached to the Parish of Castlerea was carrying the Blessed Sacrament to a woman living in the Village of Tarmon and made a short cut through the demesne to the house where the woman lay dying. On his way through the demesne the priest was accosted by Sandford who used insulting language towards the priest and tried to prevent him pass. The priest got angry, cursed the "Sandford Family", saying, "That within a certain number of years there would not be a man of the name "Sandford" living in the town of Castlerea."
    From that day forward the 'Hall Door' of Sandford's Castle