School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)was blind went to the well three times and coming home the third time she said to her mother, "I can see the daisies."A cripple was carried to it and people made the Stations for him and on Trinity-Eve night he walked home.It was customary to pay nine visits to the well, to say the prayers 7 Our Fathers 7 Hail Marys while kneeling from stone to stone. Then a little piece of cloth was left on a twig nearby and it is said according as the cloth withered the person was cured.A woman who head was turned to one side applied the water to the affected part and was cured.St. Patrick baptized children at this well.Infants were baptized here 100 years ago.Long ago there were nine little bushes growing around the well.(continues on next page)
