School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- (continued from previous page)got their names because there are a rath in them. The straw field got that name because the rick off straw is kept there, and the kiln field because there are an old kiln in it.
- Some people can cure diseases.
If a boy and girl of the same name get married, that girl can cure the whooping cough. She can cure it by giving a piece of bread and butter to some one for the sick person.
A cure for measles is sheep dirt and bee's wax.
This mixture is boiled and strained, then the water is given to the sick person to drink.
A cure for Saint Anthony's fire or as it is known around here the name of wild-fire is Cahill's blood or black cats blood. If a man named Cahill get married to a girl of the same name that man can cure it. He would tie a cord around his finger and stick a pin in it to draw the blood. Then he would put it on the wild-fire. - Collector
- Mary O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Hornick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Wexford
