School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)boys dressed up in rags, with big tall straw hats on them.
- The old people have cures for all sorts of sicknesses, and hurts. There are cures for headaches, and many other sicknesses.
The cure for a headache was to go to an old woman known as a curer. She got a ribbon and measured from the back of the head to the forehead, and then measured from the chin to the top of the head. If the headache was bad the head was usually three fingers wider. Then when the person was normal this old lady (woud) would kneel down, and whisper this prayer into the right ear.
"Mé sin rádh m mbean romansa t-cliabh is me i dToghearna Dia go de sin ort ta fiabhrac mór ort. Muir agam agat big a cuirim cugat baing-rion m Flaitic go do fuadach agus go do chimrigh go dtagaid mise."(continues on next page) - Collector
- K. Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drumdaff, Co. Mayo
