School: Caherconlish (roll number 16232)
- Location:
- Caherconlish, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs. A. Fitzgibbon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0522, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)of a family have the same name their children can cure a good many diseases, one in particular is the whooping cough.
The well of St. Laurence in Inch-St.-Laurence, near Caherconlish, is a splendid well to cure the eyes. Crowds come from far and near to get relief.
The people around Caherconlish had many cures for Fever. If one did not comb his (or her) hair on Friday he (or she) would not get the sickness. Another cure was to eat the first egg a hen would every lay. Some of the old people used to say that that cure was no good unless the egg was layed on "Good Friday." That egg could be eaten either raw or cooked but the shell would have to be eaten also.
The people used to make butter long ago on St. Bridig's Eve and put no salt in it. They would take some of that butter on a small dish or on a plate, put a piece of red cloth over it, hang it on a wall outside the house and leave it there all night. They would take in in the morning. That cloth would be a cure for a headache and a bleeding nose. It is said that if a piece of ribbon was left out on St. Brigid's Eve and(continues on next page)
