School: Tuairín Chathail (C.) (roll number 11181)
- Location:
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Shíothcháin
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- (continued from previous page)very efficacious in curing all ailments in people and in cattle. There is a rocky enclosure at the City and in it the holy well is situated.
When paying roun ds there, they go three times outside the enclosure first while reciting a Rosary each time. They then go three times inside doing likewise. They then visit three or four alters inside- heaps of stones with croses on them and say a decade of the Rosary at Each.
If unable to pay rounds themselves they pay women to make them for their intentions. They leave hair-pins, matches and such like(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Denis Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
