School: Killyclare
- Location:
- Killycleare, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheithearnaigh
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- Informant
- Mrs Joe Sharpe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 43
- Address
- Drumcondra, Co. Cavan
- When I was young, I remember going with my father to an old woman named Gibson for the cure of Red Eyes. This old woman lived at Kill, Cootehill, She burnt white paper under a bowl and rubbed the brownish stuff that was on the inside of the bowl, on the sore eyes and it cured them.