School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 03_018
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- Some of the old people long ago had charms for curing pain and sores.
1.If a child suffer from thrush it could be cured by a person who never saw his father blowing three breaths into the patients mouth.
2. Others have charms to cure a fallen palate or a sore throat. They take three ribs of the patients hair from the top of his head and when he would draw the hair it would be cured.
3. Mrs Lynane Tyrone has a charm for curing sciatica(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway
