School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)
- Location:
- Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)his hands upon the place affected and then by rubbing ointment on it. The person who had the ringworm had to go to him on three certain days and he did the same each day.Thrush:- This disease was cured by a person who never saw this father. He cured it by blowing his breath three times into the person's mouth who had the disease.Sore Eyes:- Some sore eyes were cured by getting a thorn of a gooseberry bush and to point the thorn to the eye three times.
Others were cured by going to Saint Patrick's well and by washing the eyes in the waters three times. And by kneeling down and praying. They also bring home some of the waters.Warts:- Warts were cured by(continues on next page)
