Tobar na Faoileoige or St. Conall's Well

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Tobar na Faoileoige or St. Conall's Well

Description of Well Item Type Metadata

1 Name of well and saint

Tobar na Faoileoige. St. Conall is said to be the first saint to bless the well. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273)

2 Townland, County, GPS

Kilkenny, Donegal

3 Physical description of well and its surroundings

The well sits in a field under the property of Dan Gallagher, Mulnamina. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273)

4 Cure

There are reports of sickness being healed by the well's water as well as deafness, sores, and toothaches. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273)

7 Prayer rounds and stations

The prayers said at this well are 5 Paters and 5 Aves for the person who hopes to be cured, one Pater and one Ave for the person who put the shelter over the well, and one Pater and one Ave for Father Gallagher who blessed the well. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273)

8 Stories

It is said that every priest who came to the parish blessed it and left his office at it. People also say that there was a girl sick in Aran More island long ago and that a seagull came to Tobar na Faoileoige, took the white stone from the well, and dropped it in the bed of the sick girl. From that moment she began to recover and that is why it is called Tobar na Faoileoige. An old tradition says that St. Conall slept a night at this well on his way from Inniskeel to Doire leac Conaill and that it was he who first blessed. Bernard Gallagher got cured of a running sore on the face by visiting the well and making the station.
Several got cured of toothache at it. Bernard Campbell of Lettermacaward got cured of deafness at it. (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 273)

9 Publications

National Folklore Collection

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