School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 183
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- (continued from previous page)churning. She put it into the kettle to boil, but the water would not boil. It was getting colder. So the woman looked into the kettle and there were two fishes in the kettle. They were about one inch long and about the thickness of a thread. And until she took the fishes out of the kettle it would not boil.
There was an alder tree over the well and great numbers of people were cured and anyone who was cured would leave a piece of string on the tree. Ring worms, warts and all kinds of diseases were cured. Their obligation would not be filled(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Arthur Hanlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
