School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)well and they would be cured. The water was flowing from the trunk of a tree. Sometimes they would leave a stone or a medal or a picture in thanksgiving for being cured.
There is a holy well in Cragg Birdhill it is next to a graveyard. There was a Saint buried there long ago. A great many people go there for cures when there is anything wrong with them. There is a fish in the well and when a person is cured the fish would appear to them. When the people go there they leave a medal or a cross or a beads or some other thing. You would have to go eight or nine times to the well and you would have to do certain rounds to get cured. There is a holy well near Nenagh it is about half a mile outside the town. A great many people go there for cures also.
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