School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 146
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- (continued from previous page)The woman saw she was caught and repented; the saint giving her pardon for her deed. Later she said she would never wear the cross again but would wear a rush or wooden one and as well stated that any one who would make a rush cross and place in the house on her feast day would be free from diseases of the year.
The crosses are made in the following manner.
Rushes are obtained and partly dried and made in the form of a cross. Some are made small, some fairly large but none bigger than one and half inch (?) long; Usually the men of the house(continues on next page)
