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School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)

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Bofield, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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    the water and it would ease the pain. There is a fish in League and anyone that would be cured of any disease they would have.
    Other diseases: – a disease called the "liecneac" could be cured by going into the pigs' sty and say a certain prayer. Then the pigs would take the disease. A man that you would meet with a white horse can cure chincough. Any thing he would say would be a cure. If you would put a trout in water, and the little trout to leave some juice after him, the person that had the chincough, and him to drink the juice would be cured.
    Kathleen Flannelly, Bofield, Bonniconlon
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Flannelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bofield, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Flannelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bofield, Co. Mayo