School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)for prophecies appealed to town dwellers as well as to their country cousins. Needless to say the story of Scott's sappling was after told. To the credit of these old people it must be said that they showed more veneration for the Tobar Mhuire than do their descendants. Voluntairly they took their turns in cleaning it and would not allow any rubbish to lie near it. They treated it as a holy well. But in our own time came traps who had no respect for this blessed spring, and, following their bad example of dipping dirty vessels into it others also became careless.
As for the tree, up to twenty five years ago it could be seen from any of the heights around(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eílis Ní Shúirdáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
