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School: Ballycloghan, Ardagh (roll number 9827)

Location:
Ballycloghan, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Mary Ledwith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0754, Page 182

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    Collecting of prayers in this area is very rare. However there is one rather effective prayer from the Catholic stand point which to the writers own knowledge has on a few occasions proved very useful. It has to do with a hemorrhage or severe out flow of blood and can only be offered up in extreme cases or when every other method of stopping the blood has failed on another occasion a young girl of twenty years contracted a septic throat. She was attended by the local Doctor who treated her most attendively for about a week. At the end of that time she suddenly took a violent
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. prayers (~3,266)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Farrell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Garrycam, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Patrick Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Garrycam, Co. Longford