School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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St. Bride's Well is called after St. Brigid because she spent a long time in the parish of Aughrim and she washed her face in the well when she was working in Connacht. People go to it to get cure of boils and warts and pains in the bones.
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- The whooping cough.
A very popular cure in old times for the whooping cough was to give a child a drink of milk that had been(continues on next page)
