School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 029
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- (continued from previous page)At the end of six years the priest thanked Beatty very much and said that last night while he slept, a man appeared to him and said God wished him to go to Naas, County Kildare where there wasn't a priest to be got in forty square miles. Beatty offered Father McNamee £20 and bade him good-bye.
- The old people have a number of cures for different ailments. When a person took the jaundice he went to the jaundice well, which is in Garron near Stonebridge. In this well he washed himself and hung a rag on a bush beside the well.
It is said that Saint Patrick was at this well and the track of his foot and of the paws of the hound are to be seen on a stone at the edge of the well.
People used to boil the stems of the dandelions and drink the juice, to cure pains. If two people of the same name get married, it is said they can cure anyone with the mumps.
A cure for a heartburn is a drop(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patsy Meehan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Inishammon, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Robert Scholes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Inishammon, Co. Monaghan
