School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0092
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- There is an old ruin in Abbey. It was said long ago that it belonged to St. Fechin. People go to perform every year from the fifteenth of August to the eighth of September. Most of them go for cures especially for the cure of a toothache. People go also in thanksgiving or cures etc. people also go and perform for people who are sick.
You take off your boots and go around each of the three mounds of stone three times saying prayers all the time. Then you go, the blessed three times saying prayers.
Then your perform on your knees from the blessed well to the blessed stone in the ruins and kiss the stone, you do this three times. Then you go in to the ruins where the water from the blessed well flows under ground into a hollow stones and you wash your feet and knees in the water. You come out to the well and the woman in charge gives you a vessel of water out of the well. You drink it and wash your face with some of it. You give the woman some money for her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Keavey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mary Kilcar
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
