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School: St Brigid's, Castleknock

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Castleknock, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 159

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    “There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”

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    Told by Mr. Thomas Clarke
    Sandpitts
    Castleknock
    He knew the well + saw the cures.
    Written by his daughter Patricia Clarke aged 11
    There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
    When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pump.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    “There is a little plant called Canavaun Beg...”

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    There is a little plant
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  3. Cure

    “There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”

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    There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
    When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pump
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  4. Cure

    “There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”

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    There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
    When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pump
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sore eyes (~94)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patricia Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Sandpits, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Clarke
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Sandpits, Co. Dublin