School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)rubs on the spot where the disease is.
There is a disease called ring worm, and the seventh son or ninth consecutive son or daughter has the cure. When the child is born a worm is put on the child's hand. If the worm dies this child has the cure of the ring-worm.
There is a disease called the foul mouth and any person who never saw his father has that cure. If he or she breathes on the person who has this disease, that person will be cured. - About four hundred years ago the road from Riverstown to Ross was made.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes M. Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ross, Co. Sligo