School: Kinnitty
- Location:
- Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 279
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- Mrs. P. Murray, Newtown, parish of Kinnitty, Co. Offaly, cures Ring-Worm. She gets a gold ring and puts it in the ashes for about a minute and puts it to the ring-worm. You have to go to her three times before it is cured. She cured Thomas Giltrap, Kinnitty, Co. Offaly.
- In the churchyard of Kinnitty there is a stone with a hole in it and it cures warts. All the year there is water in it and it never runs dry. It is near the church at the back. There is a grave and over it there is a cross painted like marble and the stone is at the bottom.
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- Collector
- Patrick
- Gender
- Male