School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)
- Location:
- Glengarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)hope for her and he sent for the priest. The priest was very good for cures like this. When he came to the house he told the woman this plan. He told her to get two slices of meat and to fry it in dripping as well as they could and to drink the gravy and to put the two slices of bacon up to each jaw, as a ponltice. She did it and she was as good as ever after a few days. The old people had that cure ever since
Long ago a terrible sore used to break out among the people, on their hands and feet. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Sheaghdha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigrour, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Diarmuid Ó Coingheallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigrour, Co. Cork
