School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 281
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- (continued from previous page)tongue to the thorn and it comes out immediately.One of his neighbours a Reilly girl had a thorn in her eye and the Doctors failed to get it out. Anthony Kearney by licking the eye with his tongue took it out immediately.
- When Anthony was a young lad of about eighteen years he used to be trapping rabbits in Breastagh. One day he caught a fox, brought him home alive and licked his tongue, on the advice of a portsman who happened to be in his house when he returned.Anthony is still alive and performs the cure to this day.
- Collector
- Martin Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlenageeha, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Joseph Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlenageeha, Co. Mayo
