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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Móin Chuinn (roll number 5437)

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Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
An tSr. Bríd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0841, Page 037

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    be Saint Anne. There is no annual pattern but people visit it secretly for cures. Local people state, people have been cured of fever and aigue. By this they mean malaria. The well is visited on nine sucessive mornings before sunrise. The pilgrim walks round the well each time and drinks the water but no particular prayers are said. Something is attached to the tree by each pilgrim.
    Long ago a man named Butler went to cut a branch of the tree. When he was about to start he thought he saw his house on fire. He rushed home but everything was normal. He proceeded a third time to the well again though he saw his
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Iosephín Ní Ceallaig
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny