Henry Sackville and the Improbable Street Naming
<p>One of the great things about being Irish is the endless stories. Everything and everyone has a story and a history.</p>
<p>The hill over beyond has seven holy wells hidden across it, each one consecrated by a saint who went on to introduce Christianity to Switzerland. It is said that the person who drinks from all seven on the same afternoon will live to 70. While most people can find six, no one finds seven, and do two people seldom find the same six…</p>
<p>The old woman that lived down by the bridge with the language of a sailor was the daughter of an English Lord who renounced the lifestyle decades ago, and came to live here with her ex-naval officer husband who died in mysterious circumstances. Even though she is five foot nothing and weighs less than a bag of carrots, and he was six foot six and built for it, she is said to have stuck him with a knife — nothing was ever said because she would show up in the local shop on a Monday morning with bruises…</p>
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