School: Clochar na Trócaire (roll number 13381)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 215
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- Cloc Mo Coda is about half a mile from the town of Killarny. People go there before sunrise to obtain a request or to be cured. People who go there do rounds around the well and while they are walking they say the Rosary. There is a small tree over the well and if the request is granted or if the person is cured a robin will appear on the tree. My mother and three other women were going to do rounds. On the third morning my mother and two of the women saw the robin but the other woman did not. She had gone there to be cured and a short time after she died. People are supposed to leave something on the tree as a token and they have to leave something on the tree as a token and they have to leave a piece of bread for the robin.
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- Collector
- Peig Ní Bhruchtáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Bean Uí Bhruchtáin
- Gender
- Female
