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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0611, Page 109

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    the last to be buried in it. There are two big trees growing in the grave-yard and the grave of the saint is in the middle of it on the top of the hill. People go there on two Thursdays and a Sunday. They say five "Our Fathers" five "Hail Marys" and five "Glory be to the Fathers" at the well. They go around five times and say "Our Father" and ten Hail Marys and the same at the graveyard.
    They leave pictures, medals, statues, pins, pennies and cups (at) are left to take some water. When anybody goes to the well it is said that they leave some thing after them so that they would not take any disease. If a person went on the eighteenth of December he would not have to go anymore.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Duggan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballybeg, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Moloney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballybeg, Co. Clare