School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 084
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clais
- XML Page 084
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There is a well in Hodgins of Barnagrotty and it is called the Glasskill. It was a saint who owned it and since that it is called the Glasskill. It used to cure sickness and sore eyes and anything that happened them. They used to pray and drink the water and fast for so many days. When they had sore eyes instead of drinking it but if anything else was wrong with them they would drink it. People used to go there on the last day of every month beacuse the saint used to go there to pray the last day of every month. People used to leave something at it and they used to be cured. There is a well in a tree at Lisineska cross used to go around the well a number of times and fast and leave something at the(continues on next page)
