School: Tullybrack
- Location:
- Tullybrack, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)can cure this. He lives about 3 miles from Deradda P.O. a sub post-office of Ballinamore. He lives about a mile on the mountain road beyond Pee Dolan's. Most people call at Pee Dolans's (Moher) to enquire the way.He prepares the cure while you wait. He gathers herbs through the fields, but he goes alone. Then he takes the herbs and an egg (and a thick cream) to a room still alone and then there is a sound like an egg being beaten with a fork. In a short while he comes to the kitchen and has the cure ready in a bose.
It gives immediate relief and a speedy cure.He didn't charge me any money but '' they say '' he charges strangers half a crown.Several people whom I know well, got the cure and always it was effective.These people had first been to the local doctors but they were unable to do any good.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frank Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullybrack, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Philip Darcy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Altcrock, Co. Cavan
