School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 12_041
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- (continued from previous page)could kill him. They could cure several complaints by giving a drop of the forge water to those afflicted to drink. They had also a cure for a score or a lump or for bringing back a person whom they thought was gone with the fairies. On a certain day of the week they would take nine irons and say certain prayers before twelve o'clock in the day and then rub the irons one after another on whatever part of the patient was affected. People respected the blacksmiths, not for love of them but for dread of them. The blacksmiths before never closed the doors of their forges, because anything stolen out of a forge(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick James Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cregg, Co. Mayo
