1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cooleenbridge, Scariff

School: Cooleenbridge, Scariff

Location:
Poulagower, Co. Clare
Teacher:
T. Mac Seóín
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 004

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 004

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cooleenbridge, Scariff
  2. XML Page 004
  3. XML “Biddy Earley”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Biddy Earley

    Share Share Post
    More than half a century ago there lived a woman by the name of Biddy Earley in Kilbarron a townland in the parish of Feakle. This woman had the secret of the wonderful art of performing extraordinary cures as well as the gift of foretelling to a remarkable degree. She herself was known to affirm that it was by the aid of Divine power she affected her cures, but the clergy believed that it was through the agency of the devil they were accomplished. All agree in saying that she invoked the name of the Blessed Trinity in her cures after having first ascertained the name of the Parish Priest and also that of the curate of the place in which her visitor lived.
    With anything in the shape of natural disease or an infliction of Providence she refused to interfere saying that the case did not belong to her. It was only those persons who had received
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. Biddy Early (~186)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Tobin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lecarrow Lower, Co. Clare