School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)
- Location:
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)she did and it broke the growth and it passed away naturally and she lived for 25 years after.
- This cure was taken down from Patrick Coffey, aged 76, of Ashbrook, Strokestown who heard it from his mother.
This is what he said to me - "Well my mother told me that my third eldest brother took a scald on his neck an' the child was bad and screaming and crying with pain for a whole day an' a night but howsomever the next day a travelling man came the way and asked what was amiss with the child(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kieran A. Leavy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Coffey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy, Co. Roscommon
