School: Koilmore (roll number 14115)
- Location:
- Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)three times in a certain way over the calf's tail, the calf would be cured.
- If a person had a head ache he should go to a person that could measure your head the person would get a tape, and measure your head. When she would have the person's head measured the person that could measure would say some words. The person would go three Mondays another day of the week would not do. The old people believed that it would be cured when the person would go three Mondays.
- Informant
- John Nally
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykinava, Co. Mayo
