School: Killygordon (roll number 11585)
- Location:
- Killygordon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Eibhlín Ní Loinsigh
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- My father told me that he knows a lady her name is Miss Rice. She lives a quarter of a mile from my house. She has a cure for sprains. She has cured hundreds of people, I know them to come in motor-cars, traps, donkey cars and any one that was not able to go she went to their houses for miles around.
She got the cure given to her by the nurse when she was born.
She never knew she had the cure till the nurse told her when she was ten years old.
She is now a lady, seventy years old, getting the Old Pension.
She is curing people to this very day. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Bates
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumevish, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Robert Bates
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumevish, Co. Donegal
