School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 545
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- (continued from previous page)People visit St. Michael's Well for nine consecutive days and take three drops of the water each day. They also say prayers. They believe it cures any kind of sickness. Many people were cured by this water.
If you got a ring from a married pair of the same surname and put it on a ringworm it would cure it.
If you got a loaf from married pair of the same surname and gave it to an ass to eat and gave the crumbs that fell from the asses mouth to a child with the whooping cough and then put the child under the asse's head three times saying "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Collector
- Peggy Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Collector
- Rosie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Catherine Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
