School: Ceathrú an Chalaidh
- Location:
- Ceathrú Chalaidh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Brian Mac Aodhgáin
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- (continued from previous page)the body and it falls down on the stomach. People become very weak, and unable to work when the spool falls. Bone - setter O Horo raises the spool of the breast by using his fingers. It takes about five minutes to raise the spool. The person sits in a chair and he faints during the operation. He raised the spool of the breast for Michael Joyce Drumgarive. Some times a lighted candle or cup are used to raise the spool of the Breast.
The doctors give no credit to the cure, when they can't cure it themselves. There are at least three people living here, who have suffered from this ailment, and who went to doctors and to hospital who would do nothing for them, even after ex - raying them. Yet they were cured by the bone - setter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Risteárd Ó Ceallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Droim Achaidh Ghairbh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Anthony Joyce
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Droim Achaidh Ghairbh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
