School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)
- Location:
- Baile Dúill, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: Sr Augustine
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- (continued from previous page)bones. Once he cured a man who had been in the bed for seven years with a broken bone in his back.
People long ago made pilgrimages to holy wells to get cured from certain ailments. Others worked charms. Some people were cured by passing through an opening. If a child was passed under a horses leg three times it was supposed to cure whooping cough. Certain people were loo(c)ked upon as having certain cures and healing powers such as the seventh son or if two people of the same name got married their children had cures.
Cenice Daly
31 Upper Cecil St.
Limerick
I got this from my mother.
- Collector
- Cenice Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Sráid Shisil Uachtarach, Co. Luimnigh
