School: St Garvan's, Rathmullen
- Location:
- Ráth Maoláin, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Séamus P. Mac Eiteagáin
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- Holy Wells are not common in this district but there are a few and I am going to mention about one which is not far from here. It is uh at a place called Inniskill at a house called Charles Deeney’s. It is not a very big well and it is along a lane going into Deeney’s house. It is covered with a green glut that is in the well. There are rushes growing round it and there is a wee garden beside it. Some people say it has a cure for warts and I know a person that was cured and that is my own brother James. (I) He washed his hands three times in it and he was cured. I never heard of any other diseases it cured. It was my grandmother(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Mc Garvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killycolman, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Ellen Mc Garvey
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female