School: Kilmacow (B.) (roll number 14187)
- Location:
- Cill Mhic Bhúith, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: P. Ó Loingsigh
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- St. Senan is the patron saint of the parish of Kilmacow. In a boggy field at the back of my house there is a well known as St. Senan's Well. It appears that one day St. Senan was walking along a road which is now ob-literated and he was being hunted by the English Soldiers when he was shot dead.He was buried where he died and a well sprang up just beside his grave. Some old people believe that the waters of the Holy Well possess cures for diseases and other ailments of the body.
- Collector
- Peter Hearn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Mhic Bhúith, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Thomas M. Hearn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Railway worker
- Address
- Cill Mhic Bhúith, Co. Chill Chainnigh