School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach
- Location:
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 55
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- Before scientific cures were discovered, there lived here and there throughout the country men who were called "Quack Doctors". Generally their cures were made from roots and herbs and as a rule, proved sucessful.
On the north side of Kiltimagh about two miles distant from the town is a village called Rathslevin. Along the roadside in a miserably poor hovel lived a man called "Davy". His means of livelihood was making brooms; the material being procured from Ballinamore woods. But Davy possessed a wiser and better means of earning his living, by making plasters(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Reaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvohy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
