School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)

Location:
Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Coileáin

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Local Cures

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 253

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Dust in the Eye
There was an old woman in Claragh that cured the dust in the eye. She would get a saucer of water and continued mixing the water and she says some words. Then without going near the eye atall she takes out the dust.
Cancer.
There is a woman in Tireragh that cures cancer. If the patient is brought to this woman and if it is a ready disease of cancer she will cure it. She gets herbs and makes a plaster and puts the plaster on the patient and some of it on herslef The patient suffers and the plaster cures him.
Foulmouth
I know a farmer named Pat Healy, Ropefield who has the cure for the Foulmouth. He breathes his breath into the patients mouth and it is cured. The child that never seen their father has he cure.
Pain in the back
There is a little boy named Michael Classick, Templehouse who has the cure.

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Collector
Joe Mc Guinn
Gender
male
Age
14
Address
Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
Informant
Frank Scanlon
Gender
male
Address
Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
Language
English