School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)

Location:
Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 01_048

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 01_048

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Baile an Doirín (C)
  2. XML Page 01_048
  3. XML “Our Local Saint”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    three times, on Monday, Thursday and the following Monday.
    Every time he visits the well he should leave something, if only a button, on a bank of earth which is raised beside the well.
    He says certain prayers at the well, then he brings a bottle of water from the well and washes his forehead with it every day. St Surney spent her life in poverty and prayer.
    St Surney
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kealy
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Michael Kealy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilcolgan, Co. Galway