School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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- (continued from previous page)The person who is infected with it goes to her and she blows three times into her mouth and says some prayers. This is done three times before it is cured.
- Around my locality presently there are two forts one in the townland of Culmore, Riverstown, Boyle and the other in Cartonlena. There is [nothing] interesting about the fort in Cartonlena but there is a variety of stories told by the old people about the fort in Culmore.
This fort is situated on the top of a hill a half mile from my home. It is of a circular shape surrounded by tress and inside the trees are the ruins of a sweat-house. There is up to a hundred trees, the ash, the oak-tree, the rowan tress and the sally tree. In Summer-time(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnasoohy, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Mc Manus
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Drumnasoohy, Co. Sligo
