School: Cill Mháille (C.), Inis (roll number 14469)
- Location:
- Cill Mháille, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Asaoid
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Tóirpín is all used for taking away corns .
Cúmperí is used for sprains.
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Finne mhóin} Moss in boggy water is used for rash. (no title)
“It is not right to meddle with a fort as you may suffer.”
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It is not right to meddle with a fort as you may suffer.A man who was working at Costello's fort in Darragh got crippled.Mary Sheehan was a kind midwife in Kilmaley 80 years ago.She was working at Keane's in Knockadangan and was taken into a fort there by Mickey Fitzgibbon who was dead to attend to a woman in the fort.( Mrs Keane's father was Fitzgibbon).She got that gift then (midwifery) and was very successful in Kilmaley for years. She was supposed to be a kind of a witch. She could put the sickness of the woman on the man. She used to order(continues on next page)