School: Castledermot (C.) (roll number 14201)
- Location:
- Castledermot, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Mrs Elizabeth Aylmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0782, Page 092
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“Castledermot was an ancient walled town within the Pale...”
(continued from previous page)remain are: - juggying at Wedding bringing the Coffin around the pump in the middle of the Square & around the "Swearing" Stone in the Churchyard before interring it.
At Dunmanogue, near here, there is a bush in the graveyard around which the funeral must go also before the coffin is buried.
- I have heard of boiled nettles and boiled snails as cures for Ringworm, Camomile flowers & Poppyheads as a cure for "gumboils"
A candle & bottle are used to raise the breast-bone if it goes down. (an old belief.)
Miss Gilfoyle who is now dead & Mrs. Cross, the Postmistress are the local quacks. They make a great many ointments from herbs but do not like to give away the secret
