School: Dún Béicín (roll number 14822)
- Location:
- Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Nic Giolla Geanainn
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Henry Kilgannon of Rathglass Templeboy Co Sligo is the seventh son and he has the Cure of Ringworm.
Ned Duffy of Dunowla Killmacshalgon has the Cure of the Foulmouth and when he blows his breath on a person that has that disease the person is cured.
It was an old remedy for a sty in the eye to get seven thorns of a gooseberrybush and to point six of them one at a time, at the sty and throw away the seventh, and the cure was made then.
There is a holy well in Dromard Co Sligo and there were two people Cured init one was cured from a weak back, and the other was Cured from the falling sickness
- Collector
- Jack Dunleavy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunowla, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John DunLeavy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunowla, Co. Sligo
