School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 364
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- (continued from previous page)our land with a cleft through which a child was drawn three times to cure rupture.
To cure trush people gave milk to a ferrit, then the milk left after him was given to the child effected.
About four miles from here there is a well called “Patricks well” which made stations to the cure of various aliments.
They bathed the effected part in the well and then left a token of their visit such as a piece of their clothing on the branches of a large tree that overshadowed the well.
- John Muldoon a native of Walshestown could set broken bones. He set many persons' legs and also animals.
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- P. Healy
