School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 172
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- There is a holy well in Westmeath and it has cures.
One day a woman had pains and she went to the holy well to be cured but she was not cured. She went and told the priest. The priest told her to bring a bottle of water, and she did so. He breathed three times in the name of the Trinity when lo" the water turned into blood. "Here is the harm" said the priest "a murdered has washed his hands in the well. Then he told her to make a fire in a circle and she did so and he pronounced some words over it, and a mist rose up with a form of a spirit in the midst, holding man by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
