School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0678, Page 072
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- Oh holy mother Mary and Elizabeth Mother of John the Baptist we put these three between us and any disease that come in sleep from lying to waking
- A prayer that Mary put on her Son in the door of Gods church's for pains of the head the worm that is in the flesh rotting the teeth. may Jesus Christ banish it from us and deaden it.
Our Father, Hail Mary, a Creed are said after it. - May He who gave us this food and sense to use it give us grace and life everlasting
- Collector
- Treasa Wall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Eibhlís Ní Cholmáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
