School: An Clochar, Port Omna
- Location:
- Portumna, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Lorcáin
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- (continued from previous page)from every ailment. It was the custom of the old people to walk bare-footed to the holy-well and then to say the stations and take some of the holy-water from the well. Many ailments are known to be cured this way, not immediately, but after a very short time.Written by:- Ita Keighrey,
Clonfert Ave,
PortumnaObtained from:- Nurse Glynn,
St. Joseph's Rd. - A ferret's leavings was used as a remedy for the whooping cough, also if you asked a man driving a grey horse for a cure for the whooping cough, what(continues on next page)