School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)is now in ruins, and which was one of the finest of its time.
The saint lived in a rocky cave some fields from the well. The well in itself is a lovely sight. It is said that once a farmer named Carey came to the saint and told him of the scarcity of water, and he told him to dig a hole and fill it with water and it would never go dry.
Once day the saint washed his feet in it and a cow owned by that farmer came and licked his sore feet and the man saw her and accused the saint of trying to posion his cow and that night she milked four buckets of milk, and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrylacky, Co. Kilkenny
