School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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“There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”
Told by Mr. Thomas Clarke
Sandpitts
Castleknock
He knew the well + saw the cures.
Written by his daughter Patricia Clarke aged 11There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pump.Cure
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- Patricia Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Sandpits, Co. Dublin
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- Mrs Clarke
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- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sandpits, Co. Dublin
Cure
“There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”
There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pumpCure
“There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well.”
There was a well near the Sandpitts called the Rag Well. Long ago people with sore eyes came to the well and washed their eyes in the water with a piece of cloth and then hung it up on a bush over the well.
When all the pumps in Castleknock went dry it was the only well that had water and the people came with their buckets for water. I am sorry to say it is now a pump