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School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)

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Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 221

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    call Ash Wednesday Puss Wednesday because the girl, who did not get a husband during Shrove, would have a Puss on her.

    Holy Well
    Long ago there was a blind boy, living outside Killarney, one night, he had a dream there was a well in Boola.
    He told his mother in the morning about his dream, and he thought that there was a black root coming out over it, and he thought that he was taken there and he got back his sight again; he or his mother never knew the place.
    They enquired if such as Boola, Firies was in existence; they were told that it was there. His mother took him there, he bathed his eyes with the water of the well, she was the first person who found
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Ned Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Fieries, Co. Kerry