School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)on the Feast of St. Anne. People come from different parts of the County, and all the people of the district congregate together at the well. They visit the old graveyard, and pray over their deceased friends, and decorate their graves. They make a pilgrimage to the well. They drink of the water, and carry some home in flasks. They bath any sores, or affected parts of their bodies in a small stream which runs out of the well. A small tree which grew beside the well in former times, cured the toothache. People used to take some of it home with them, year after year, with the result that no trace of it can be seen now.
There is a timber structure erected over the well, and it is very nicely decorated by the people for the "Pattern." About three years ago an epidemic of typhoid fever broke out in the village(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Coady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Grange Upper, Co. Wexford
