1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Clochar na Trócaire, Inis

School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)

Location:
Ennis, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 258

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 258

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis
  2. XML Page 258
  3. XML “Local Happenings”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Happenings

    Share Share Post
    Local Happenings
    Many are the local happenings that happened in Ennis and the surrounding district and I will now relate some of them.
    About a hundred years ago there live a man named Thomas O'Donoghue who was usually called Holy Tom. He had been blind for years. He had great devotions to St Joseph who appeared to him in a dream and directed him to bathe his eyes in the well in Ballycoree, and that his sight should be restored to him. The holy man did as hewas told and the Saints words were fulfilled. In thanksgiving Tom erected a statue in honour of St Joseph and spent the rests of his days outside the Franciscan Church mending Beads and other things. The well is now known as
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Riordan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Abbey Street, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Pako Malone
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ennis, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Tom Donoghue
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ennis, Co. Clare