School: Loughduff (C.)
- Location:
- Loughduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 183
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The Annual Pattern is on the seventeenth of March. A large crowd of people visit the well on this day in order to pay honour and respect to that glorious Saint. There are other days of pilgrimage as well as this day. People who visit the well for cures, visit it on three different days. The visiting days are Thursday, Monday, and Thursday.
The prayers usually recited each time are the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory be to the Father five times. The person kneels in five different places round the well while saying each prayer, and makes the same round three times. The water of the well is considered efficacious for the relief of all ailments. If(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Moynagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Legwee, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Moynagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Legwee, Co. Cavan
