School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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- Thrush
This is a disease of the mouth and throat which is generally taken by children in their infancy.
A child born after his father's death is supposed to have the cure for this disease. Willie Collins Hill Street Ballina who never saw his father is such a child and parents bring their children who suffer from Thrush to him
He blows his breath into the sufferer's mouth three times then the mother takes the child's hand and makes the Sign of the Cross with it.
- Jack Reape has also a cure for the Thrush.
My mother took my little sister Nuala to him and he cured her - Collector
- Stephen Timlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
