Blessed Wells

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Blessed Wells.
There are four blessed wells in this parish and each well has its own Saint and it is called after St. There is a well in John Greene's land about a mile from Inagh and about a half mile from the main road. It is situated in a wet marshy place and cattle are allowed drink water from it. It is called "Mucknish" blessed well and it was blessed by Saint Flannan. There is a river and a lake about one hundred yards from it.
There is a grave yard at the back of it and children were buried in it some some years ago. John Mullins's brother and sister were

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the last to be buried in it. There are two big trees growing in the grave-yard and the grave of the saint is in the middle of it on the top of the hill. People go there on two Thursdays and a Sunday. They say five "Our Fathers" five "Hail Marys" and five "Glory be to the Fathers" at the well. They go around five times and say "Our Father" and ten Hail Marys and the same at the graveyard.
They leave pictures, medals, statues, pins, pennies and cups (at) are left to take some water. When anybody goes to the well it is said that they leave some thing after them so that they would not take any disease. If a person went on the eighteenth of December he would not have to go anymore.

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They visit this well for sore eyes and for sore feet. A man from Cloonanaha named James Wynne got his eyes cured at this well.
There is another well in Knocknakilla about three miles from Inagh and about one mile from the main road. It is in Mr. Barry's land and it situated in a marshy lonely place amongst clusters of oak trees. There is a stone wall built all round it was an entrance at one end and there is writing in one of the stones.
The patron saint of the well in "Naomh Diaraidhe" and the people perform rounds to it for sore eyes. The round is performed just like the other well and a trout is seen in this well and

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if you see it you will be granted your request. A man from Mount Callan got cured at this well. One day he was cutting bushes in a fort and one of the bushes hit him in the eye and it got sore. He performed a round to this well and he got cured.
It removed at one time because it was filled with stones. It was in Mr. Meaney's land at first and when it removed an old woman came and done it up but no body ever was talking with her. It is well kept and there are three altars in it and they are lovely decorated. There are flowers, medals, pictures, statues and rosary beads left in it and a cup is left for the people to take water in it. There is a

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graveyard situated near by and it is called the "coill." There were infants buried in it long ago belonging to the Morgans. There are a lot of trees growing around it and there are a lot of heaps of stones in it where the infants are buried.
The third holy well is in Maurices Mills and it is about four miles from Inagh. It is situated at the bottom of a hill and the church for the Corofin people long ago was situated near the well. The well was blessed by Saint-Flannan and when he went to the place first he stood on a stone near the well and the shape of the two feet are on the stone. The well has a cure for a pain in the head

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and for a person who would be lame. One time a man was lame and he performed a round at this well.
When he reached the well he was very tired and he sat down and slept. When he woke he was cured and he left the crutches after him. They were at the well for a long time until they got rotten.