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School: Holy Faith Convent, Newtownmount Kennedy

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Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Sr. Mechtilde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 232

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    About a 100 yards South East of Killadreenans Church ruins there is a well in the middle of a marsh, at which the people long ago believed it cure them of their deseases.
    They washed their deseases in the well and then hung their bandages on a thorn bush which was cut down the year I was born 1927. The people of the locality were sorry for this bush as it reminded them of the many cures which took place at the holy well.
    My father told me the above.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Carmel Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtown Mountkennedy, Co. Wicklow