School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)to dig there. Among the stones he turned up was one bearing the inpression of a woman's foot. Old people who remember seeing this stone when it was kept in a house near the Well describe it as dark bluish in colour and the mark as similar to the imprint of a person's foot on soft mud which might harden in course of time and preserve the impression. It was called the Blessed Virgin's Foot. People used to apply it to their bodies while praying to get relief from their pains, but whether or not cures were made is not told.
It is told too that generations ago rounds were made at this well Lá Feile Muire i bhFóghmhair(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eílis Ní Shúirdáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
