School: Mercy Convent, Longford (roll number 12942)
- Location:
- Longford, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr Clement
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 023
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- There is a well in Derrdarra where our Blessed Lady appeared to a brother and sister who were working in a field near the well. Up to now all the people go to perform stations there on their bear knees and they are also bare footed while doing the stations. A Protestant man lived in a big house close by. They were not at all pleased to see the people come to pray so he got his men to sink a well just beside Lady well but in his own land as if to take the water from Lady well but he was unable to do so. There is a big tree growing beside it and everybody that goes brings a little picture or flowers. They have a little altar erected there from the 15th August to the 8th September.
- Collector
- Nancy Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mrs Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
