School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 307
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- Told by Mrs William Smyth aged 50 years, Gneeve, Mountnugent.
Fore is situated in Westmeath. While St. Fechin was in Fore he built a monastery. On the south side of the monastery there is a spring well, in which St. Fechin used to stand for hours doing penance.When people would have a tooth ache they would go to the well and bring a bottle of water and then leave a pin on a piece of their handkerchief after them at the well. The tooth ache would go and to this day there is a number of pins in the well.A cure for warts was to dip the warts in the water that would be in a hollow of a stone. Some people used that cure and then used get a snail, rub it to their wart, put him on a thorn in a bush and when the snail is withered away the wart will fall off.
Íde Ní Gabhann
- Collector
- Íde Ní Gobhann
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs William Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gneeve, Co. Cavan
