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School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

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Rush Hall, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 345

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    June every year the priest and crowds of people go to visit it. The priest says special prayers and sprinkles the water over the people. There was a woman one time and she went to the well and got a gallon of water. She brought it home an put is down to boil. She had it down for ages and after some time she began to put down a very big fire. She had it down for five or six hours and it never got even lukewarm. There was a man one time he had a terrible disease and he went and drank some of the water and after a few days he was cured.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Phelan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Christopher Phelan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Loran, Co. Tipperary