School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)
- Location:
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Raighne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)also has a cure for lifting the palate of your mouth.
Cattle cures. If a cow is elf shot the man that owns her must get a bag of elf stones. The stones may be got in fields, these stones have the track of a thumb and a finger on them. He must put in silver and get water from a thre mairn river and give it to the cow to drink in the name of God, but before this a man will measure her three times with his hands and each time he will have a different measure.
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There is a book in the Lower Rosses Point written by pen, in Latin and if there is a man that can read it ion three times over the cow before sunset the cow will be cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Gillen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
