School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- (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)- Collector
- Mary Kealy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Michael Kealy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway