School: Corderay (roll number 12735)
- Location:
- Shancurry, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)affected part of the leg and said some prayers. That was on a Monday. The following Thursday he was prompted to go to see the woman and he did so. She was greatly relieved and Morrison repeated the cure. In less than a month she was fully cured.
The cure is yet in the Morrison family and availed of by any that suffer from the running soar.
Ellen Morrison of Corlona Drumena Co Leitrim has the cure today and I hear the rope is worn to a thread.
Tommy Earley lived in Ardculumn beside Burchell. When Burchell was condemned to death his clothes were very worn. He wrote to Tommy Earley for his suit to wear it on the morning of his execution. Earley gave him his best suit or his Sunday suit. The suit was buried with poor Burchell. Earley was a very poor man, still he gave the suit and was present at the execution.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Céilleachair
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
