School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)followers horse refused to travel and the man said, go on in the name of God. When the horse was jumping he fell and hurt his back and nothing happened the horseman. Very few St Patricks Crosses are to be found nowadays. Some of them were made of timber and more of iron. Some people hand the cross in the room and more near a holy picture and more on a little altar. There is a well in Loughdaheen and there is a cure for sore eyes in the water. A woman went to a siobbrad for a cure and he said there was a cure on her own farm and there is a stone there like a pigs nose. There is a ruin of an old house in the fields and the well springs up from under a very heavy stone. The people around my district get water at that well for curing warts also. If the holly is broken it is said it would not grow again It is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Daniels
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughdeheen, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Martin Carberry
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Loughdeheen, Co. Waterford
