School: St. Mary's (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 556
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- (continued from previous page)He blessed a well where many people got cured of sore eyes by using the water. He left tracks of his knee on stone. When shooting with the finger of his glove a very bad girl who lived close by named Maura Gargan whom he caught eating blackberries going to communion. She disappeared in three parts one went up in the air one went under the ground the third into a lake close by called clugga lake. The part that went under the ground was to appear on earth again he said when ninety nine thousand nine hundred and nine people by the same name would cross the spot where she disappeared. For years and years anyone called Gargan would cross the field rather than pass over place lest she might rise again. Now people have forgotten about it and there is now one of that name in the district.
