School: Portlongfield
- Location:
- Portlongfield, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ní Chuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0983, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)in the open because a big turf fire has to be made. It is done in a field. The water that the smith washes his hands in or that cools the iron cures warts. When the smith is putting an iron on a "laige" he knows if there is any witchery going on in the district. One day the Blessed Virgin was out walking in the Desert. She had the Infant Jesus with her and St. Joseph was with her too. The Blessed Virgin lost the pin of the coat in which she wrapped the Infant. She asked two goat herds to get her a thorn but they refused and said they had no time. She was passing a forge. The smith coming out saw she had no pin in her mantle. He told her he would make her a pin. He took a piece of money from his pocket and he beat it into a pin. The Blessed Virgin was very thankful to him for it. After that it is said that the smith who washes in the water in which he cools his irons will find himself refreshed.
- Collector
- Annie Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Cavan
