Scoil: Cill Moicheallóg (B.) (uimhir rolla 15740)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Ancient Well of Ardpatrick (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   The Ancient Well of Ardpatrick

   Near Ardpatrick, which is about a mile from Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, is situated an old well which is called the Robbers Well. If you loooked into this well, and you didn't see your reflection, you were supposed to die within the year. But if you did see your reglection you were to have great joy.

   One Sunday morning when the people were coming home from mass, a young couple went across the field where the Robbers Well was. They were laughing gaily as they peeped down over the edge of the well to see if they could see their reflections below in the clear water. But sad to say no fresh young faces looked up from below.

   They left the well with heavy hearts, but they soon forgot all about it, and some months later they were married.

   One morning the maid went up to call the boy and girl and getting no response she went into the room. A queer sight met her eyes, the bed-clothes were flung around the room, and on the bed lay the bodies of the once happy couple, killed by the Robbers Well.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Maurice Power

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   13

   Seoladh

   Cill Mocheallóg, Co. Luimnigh

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Regan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   74

   Seoladh

   Cill Mocheallóg, Co. Luimnigh