School: Kiffa

Location:
Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 017

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 017

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    The first day she took nine gooseberry thorns and pointed them at my eye at the same time saying some prayer. Next day she threw away one thorn and pointed them at my eye as before.
    She threw away one thorn each day. On the last day my eye was completely cured.
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  2. The following story was told to me by my father, "You ask for a story of some kind and of interest - well to commence with I remember fifty years ago, there was great excitement over a little girl, a labourers daughter who met with a serious accident by getting her wrist cut across on a scythe which was standing up in a corner of her fathers kitchen - In passing I may
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Wilfred Lowry
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graddum, Co. Cavan