School: Srath an Urláir (roll number 13367)
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Tiománaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1095, Page 133
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- The persons who are doing the station first wash their feet in the lake. They then go 3 times round the well on their bare knees and 3 times on the bare feet and while doing so say the fifteen decades of the rosary. After each decade a stone is thrown up on the ever-increasing cairn. After this five "Hail Marys" & five "Our Fathers" are said in honour of the priest who blessed the well. Five "Our Fathers" & five "Hail Marys" are also said in honour of St. Brigid for the benefit of the pilgrim. Finally pieces of cloth or some other articles are rubbed on the pilgrim's sores and these are left at the well in order that St. Brigid will cure the disease.
