School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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- (continued from previous page)woman named Kitty Muldoon who lived in the Mountain Parish exercised the gift and when she was dying she gave the cure to her nephew Jack Muldoon.
I am afraid the gift has died out now as Jack Muldoon left no family behind him. - Mrs Brigid Slevin, Mount Murray, has the cure of the thorn. When a person gets a thorn which cannot be removed, he goes to her. She rubs an ointment which is like butter and gives some(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gretta Sargent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farrow, Co. Westmeath