School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 283
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- 1 About fifty years ago, there lived an old woman in the district of Miltown Malbay.
2 This woman was about eighty years of age, and she had a cure for raising the "cléitin" or the breast bone.
3. One day a man came into her and he had a pain in his breast bone.
4 The woman brought him into a room and looked at his chest and found that his breast bone had gone out of place.
5. She got a penny, a candle, and a glass tumbler.
6 Then she melted a piece of the candlegrease on to the penny and laid it on the mans chest.
7 The candle was lighted and then she put the glass over the candle down on the mans chest and in a little while it quenched because there was no air inside in the glass.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Arthur Mc Kenzie
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Postman
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
