School: Cill Ruis (roll number 16044)
- Location:
- Kilross, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Fuadaigh
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- In old days the people had certain cures or charms for diseases or as they used to say crossness in animals. They had a belief that anything born on Whit Sunday had a peculair crossness about them. In this district well over a hundred years ago there lived a fairly well to do man, who kept a very fine type of mare. This mare foaled a fine horse foal on Whit Sunday.The man was afraid when the foal would grow strong that he would be cross. Some neighbour told him if he would get a farrier to slit the foals forhead and insert in it a firepenny bit it was a certain cure against crossness. The man got the farrier who performed this cure. The coin called the firepenny bit, in those days had a figure of a cross raised on the face of it. As time went on the foal grew into a fine strong type of horse and the man kept him for his own work. In those early years(continues on next page)