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School: Clochar na Trócaire (Convent of Mercy)

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Skibbereen, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 007

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    bottle of the water with which he sprinkled the cattle and prevented disease among them during the coming year.
    Sometimes the boys of the district went to a near by wood which they set on fire. Bonfires are still lighted in each farm. A lighting bush is brought from the fire to each tillage field and there is given a drink of water to the cattle from a stream where three townlands meet
    Séosaimhín Ní Chochláin
    Lic na bhFear
    Sgibrín
    Fuaras ó m'athair
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Feast of St John (~208)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séosaimhín Ní Chochláin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Licknavar, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Pádraig Ó Cochláin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Licknavar, Co. Cork