School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mary A. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 474
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- The Patron Saint of this parish is Our Blessed Lady. The church is dedicated to her honour. It was built about the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. The old church was where the present graveyard is but was knocked down the time of Cromwell. The Church was then erected in the site of the old school.
There is a blessed well in the district near the village of Ballyheigue where rounds are paid on the Saturdays previous to feast days of Our Lady but there are special devotions on her birth day.
Mass is said at the Grotto beside the blessed well in the open air on the eight of September. Immediately after people pay rounds, they begin the rosary at the Blessed well and walk round the square saying their beads and finish them at the well again. They repeat this three times then drink the water, put an offering into the box at(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Halloran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Kerry Head, Co. Kerry
