School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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- (continued from previous page)down from father to son and it is made of herbs.
It is a plaster he makes and puts it on the place where the cancer is. This plaster draws out all the roots of the cancer and in some cases if the cancer is working long it will take three plasters to cure it.
My grandfather Tom Gallagher had cancer about thirty years ago and he went to Patterson who put on a plaster. Some time after he got on another plaster and it took the third to cure him. It is a perfect cure for cancer for lots of people have got cured around this district namely Mr Robert Gallagher, Patrick Kerr, Mrs Peoples Glinsk and lots of other people.
Chilblains. To cure chilblains the people of this district have a very simple cure. To get potato water and bathe the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tully, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Lizzie Gallagher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 34
- Address
- Tully, Co. Donegal
