School: An Clochar, Baile Caisleáin Bhéara (roll number 13762)
- Location:
- Castletownbere, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Rosáraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0278, Page 061
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- (continued from previous page)and it is around these mounds the rounds are performed. A round consists of walking slowly ten times around each mound, and saying each time One Our Father, One Hail Mary, and One Gloria. Then the person takes a drink out of the well, blesses himself and rubs the water to the particular part of the body which is sick. Before departing a halfpenny or some little token is thrown into the well.
The old people say that the "Réid Fhináin" round is good for curing headaches or any disease of the head.
- To the west end of Castletown Bere there is an old graveyard situated, nearby there is a holy well. In olden days people that suffered from any diseases of the body, used visit this well and pray for a certain amount of time, that God may deliver them from their sufferings and restore them back to health again. At the edge of the well a frog sat and if the invalids did not see him, it was a sign that their diseases would not be cured.
- Collector
- Dolores Dudley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom South, Co. Cork
