School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 09_018
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- There is a blessed well in McAllens farm in Gortaveha.On May night people come and after washing the sore if they slept the would get better and if they did not the would not be cured.
One night a girl in Gortaveha had a sore eye and her mother brought her one night and washed her eye and when she slept and when she awoke she could see as good as ever.
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Conmara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockanena, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Knockatunna, Co. Clare
