School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)them in three different places, then he used to get a horse and walk around the stones saying some prayers. He also used to sit on the stones saying the prayers, he did that for three times and then he was cured. Some time ago people used to cure warts by getting two bits of straw and putting them in the shape of a cross, and then by getting a straight pin and by putting the pin through the straw and then through the wart, but then you must bury the straw and the pin. People cure them that way to this day.
- There are many fairy forts in this district.
There is one in one of our fields which is called the rath field and the fort is called a rath.
This rath was a churchyard in olden times and the Danes were buried there. There was a clay mound ditch around this rath and the man that owned the field first, knocked it down when he was going to plough the field. Every year since that about June or July a ríng of ferns could be seen around(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Rochford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Camaross, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Rochford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Camaross, Co. Wexford
