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School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)

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Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 257

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    of the head that person has head fever. Then the person says a prayer over the person. There are certain days for the cure, Mondays and Thursdays.
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    There is a man named Thomas Scanlon in Rinbane and he was cured of head fever by a man down in Tireragh. He was to measure the head from the top to the chin and from middle of the back of the head to the nose. If it is not the same measure from the back of the head to the nose as it is from the top of the head to the chin the person has head fever. The head is open at the top of the head. The person who has the cure says prayers over
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frances Finn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Thomas Scanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo