School: Baile Nua (Villierstown), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 7737)

Location:
Newtown, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0643, Page 093

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  3. XML “Cures”
  4. XML “An Old Ruin”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Villierstown, Co. Waterford
  2. In this townland there is a very old ruin. Many years ago there was a hospital there. A lot of people died and were buried there. The remains of the graves are still to be seen there.
    Most of the people died there during the year of the Famine in 1847. People say nowadays that if you went into the old ruin you would get a disease.
    One night an old man was
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