School: An Cnoc (C.) (roll number 16123)
- Location:
- Knock, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)then she would tell the person to hold his head over the water then she would say some magic words and the dust would appear in the water. Mary Murphy had also a cure for a head-ache but she cured them the same way as Betty Muldoon except that she put three rows of thread instead of one thread, and the person was not to speak to anyone but to Mary, From once they left their own house untill they would return home again.
Jane McDonell had a cure for sprains and sinew starts.
There was another woman who had a cure for the deighthan. She used to get a piece of clay and put it on the part that was affected. Then she would get a bowl and press it tightly against the sore, and when the bowl(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondace, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Drum, Co. Mayo
