School: Fairche, Cill Dairbhre (roll number 6834)
- Location:
- Farahy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Mac Fheorais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 244
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- Each year on the eve of St. Brigid my mother makes a Brat Brigid. This is a strip of black cloth about three inches wide and about one foot and a half in length. This strip is hung on the latch of the door to the outside. It is put there on the thirty first of January and left there till next morning. It is then taken off and kept in the house. The Brat Brigid is afterwards put on a person's head if the person has a headache and is also applied to sores and is supposed to help cure these ailments.
Nelly Cleary
Ballinguiroe,
Kildorrery
- Collector
- Nelly Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyguyroe North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyguyroe North, Co. Cork
