School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall
- Location:
- Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 103
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“There is a place in Sligo called Killery. ...”
(continued from previous page)It is a graveyard. There is a priest buried there. People go for cures to his grave. They bring the clay from it. People going for cures must be in the graveyard at sunrise and they have to be back again at home before sunset. If they do not do this they will not have the cure. There are small stones at the grave. A number of prayers have to be said at each stone. The prayers must be said as quickly as the person can say them. If they do not say them quickly they will be hunted. When they have the prayers said(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Kerigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ard Carna, Co. Ros Comáin