A reminder on the subject of "rag wells"--in Ireland (the Republic and the
North), the strips of cloth tied to trees as part of well ritual are called
"clooties," not rags.
Decent pictures of clootie tree at Doon well in Donegal at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7080/doonwell.html
Please ignore the lousy retelling of the story of Sionann on the same page.
Francine Nicholson
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