School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)by a prick of a gooseberry thron, or a wash of cold tea morning and night. People by the name of Cahil have great healing power.
When a person has the sickness called Anthony's Fire, a man by the name of Cahil can only cure it by bleeding his finger and spilling his blood around the Anthony's fire.
The fire cannot be cured by any doctor only by those of the name mentioned.- Collector
- Máire Ní Leathlobhair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilree, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Lawlor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Kilree, Co. Kilkenny