School: Glasdrumman (roll number 6046)
- Location:
- Glasdrumman, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Mhághnusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 150
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- (continued from previous page)cure was to rub a piece of goose ame on the swelled joints. Miss Sibery had a cure for a burn and it is still used. It was a great cure. Immediatly it was placed on a burn the pain left.
All people with weak hearts went to Tobarnalt to hear first Mass on Garland Sunday. A poultice of loaf bread was used for nearly every disease. Some of those cures and practices them all were good cures. Some of them are still used and that shows us they were very good.
- Informant
- Mr Pat Rooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corglass, Co. Leitrim
