School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)that passed in got a half a glass of it and if he was a friend he got a glass. The night of the wake keeners would be at the door keening over the person who would be dead. Sometimes no keeners would come. It would depend on whether he would be rich or poor. For if he was rich he would get money and if he was poor they would not get much money.
- In Kill near Clogh there is a holy well it is a little well with a tree growing over it. It is said if you had a disease you were to drink an eggcupful of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fintan Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
