School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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hundreds were cured from the disease called "Black Fever" by drinking some of this water. A priest named Fr McCabe made the people drink this water. When old people come about the place they always get a drink of this water especially if they have a sore throat. because the "Black Fever"was a disease in the throat. Before Fr McCabe died he got a drink out of the well, and when he had it drank he said that the people of Tubberdaly would never suffer thirst. Fr McCabe's dying wish was to be buried beside this well.
- Collector
- Philomena Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberdaly, Co. Offaly
