School: Ráth Sheiscinn (roll number 13866)

Location:
Ratheskin, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Anna Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 183

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    He bound him to secrecy.
    King of Ballina took the evil. He and his son went to the Pretender for his blood. He was ordered to go to the top of a hill.
    Pretender got stand and nails in it and got King rolled down the hill. He said he was leaving the son alive to bring home the news to the Irish Protestants.
    Palmer of Summer Hill took the evil and was cured by the Pretender.
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    The Evil is a boil which fills with every moon.

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. scrofula (~18)
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