School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)really believed that the fairies existed. However she did something one day which was supposed to have annoyed the fairies or little people as she herself called them. When she was walking around her house one day she fell and hurt her leg. Her sister sent for the doctor, but when the doctor came the woman told him to go away about his business. She said if they brought her back to the spot where she fell, and put a handful of mud into her mouth she would be cured.
- A man in Southlodge named Samuel Cooney is supposed to be able to stop bleeding from the nose, or a wound, by taking off his cap when entering the house.
Machine oil is supposed to cure a bad cut or a wound in a day or two.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Hanly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballycullin, Co. Tipperary
