School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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- XML “Cures - Cléithín”
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- (continued from previous page)been sent to England to cure boys from Belcarra district who suffered from Sprain in England where they went to work.
Thomas Naughton was (or is) a shoemaker. He is aged 79 years (in 1938) and is now in the County Home, Castlebar. Tommie is able to make a plaster that can cure the "Evil" which is some thing like a running sore.
He instanced to me the case of a neighbour who had the Evil in his face. The doctors could not cure it. He got Tommie's plaster and it cured him in a short time. - The curer of the Cléithín enjoys quite a reputation. O'Hora of Ballyvary is almost famous.The cléithín is also called the spool of the breast. A bone or something in the breast, they say falls down out of its place and must be lifted up into its place.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Gealbháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Garry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockboy, Co. Mayo