What is recorded here

St Margarets Well is a small open well in a cottage garden in County Limerick, Ireland. People once performed stations there to cure diseases, but that practice has faded into vague tradition. The water still waits beneath the garden soil, remembering the hands that reached it before forgetting the name of the saint who gave it power.

Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about St Margaret's Well; ‘small open well in the garden of a new cottage. No devotions now, and only a vague tradition that it was a holy well. "There are stations performed at this well for the cure of diseases". OSNB. "The people say that no stations are now performed at it". OSL. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

St Margaret's Well at Knockuregare is associated with St Margaret of Antioch, a Christian martyr venerated in Ireland for her healing powers. The well was once used for ritual bathing and pilgrimage, particularly for curing skin ailments and female-related illnesses, though such devotions have since faded.

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