School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- Holy wells are very common in the locality. There is one well in Brownscastle which is called St Munn's. This well is supposed to cure sore eyes. There was a man who came from the county Kilkenny with sore eyes and he got cured.
Another man in the district had a lump on his jaw and every Sunday he went to the holy well, and rubbed his jaw with the water and prayed there. One Sunday he went asleep beside the well, and when he wakened the lump was gone.
- The people got cotton threads to make candles then they would boil greece and keep dipping the cotton threads in the greece until they had it made;
then the people would hang them to dry.
Soap was made by boiling greece a half a pound of pot-ash, and boil it for half an hour then put it into dishes and let it set then cut it into large bars and let it get really hard and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Teresa Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Camaross, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Camaross, Co. Wexford
