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School: Tobar Ruadh

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Toberroe, Co. Galway
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Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0153

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    The people used to have queer cures for diseases. When children were sick they would bring them to this man and his name was Mountain Burke, And for a cold he would order senna. This man was living in Kilshanny, Kilconly, Tuam, to galway, about two hundred years ago. He used to cure bad diseases. He was the best man around the place for curing some kind of fever and he used to cure other diseases also. There was an old woman and her name was Nora Martyn and she was very good for cures. A good man people used to come to get a cure from her. Nora Martyn liven in Kibl, Kilshanny, Kilconly, Tuam, to galway about a hundred years ago.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Canney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilshanvy, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Patrick Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Kilshanvy, Co. Galway