School: Banada
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 068
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- There is a cave situated in Kiltobranks about two miles from Ballaghaderreen. In former days pilgrims used to travel barefooted from many parts of Ireland to do penance there, and kneel in prayer on the bare stones.
There is an entrance into the cave where there are three Holy Wells. The pilgrims used to walk in those wells, and leave a lighted candle at the last well. Holy pictures and beads were left by the people in the cave. Each pilgrim who came had to bring seven pebbles from the road, and do so many decades on those, and when they were going they left the pebbles on the heap of stones near the cave.
It is said that many people were cured there in olden times.
- Collector
- Kathleen Towey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lung, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Gara
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lung, Co. Roscommon
