School: Baile Ruadh (roll number 15875)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héaluithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 011
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- (continued from previous page)before May Day, St. John's Eve, and Michaelmas Eve.Disabled or crippled people or the blind must bathe in the waters of the well. A long time ago a great miracle happened there one St. John Eve. Three disabled boys came to the well with three pairs of crutches. After paying their rounds they went into the well and bathed in it and they were immediately cured. They left their crutches after them.This is how they perform the rounds there (a) They say two rosaries around a clump of trees (b) they say three rosaries around the well and after each rosary they kneel down and ask their request. (c) They finish up praying at the altar stone.There are three stones there shaped like hearts and they are supposed to sweat or perspire at certain periods and when people rub their fingers to them and then rub the perspiration to the sores they are immediately cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séan Ó Héaluithe
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
