A Spring Well

Garbally, Co. Galway

Long ago there was a spring well in the Ffrench estate at Monivea, Co. Galway. A policeman who stopped to take a drink there, fell in and drowned. Since then the well has been known as “poll gairda”.

Collector: Unkown

Informant: Pat Fahy, Ballynamona, Co. Galway

Place: Garbally, Co. Galway

Footnote: Duchas, ‘The Schools’ Collection’, www.duchas.ie

This page was added on 26/04/2017.

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