School: Collon (B.) (roll number 14578)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: B. Mac Searraigh
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- Long ago the doctors were not as plentiful as they are now and people believed in healing by herbs, charms and quacks. There was a woman living in Collon and when any person got a bad bleeding in the nose, a mesenger was sent to this woman. And immediately the bleeding would stop. A cure for a sty on the eye was to get ten thorns from a gooseberry bush and a pereson who had their father and mother living to point nine at the sty and throw the tenth away. A cure for a wart was to go to a forge and dip the wart seven times in the forge-water.
One of the most famous bonesetters in Co., Louth was Mat Fleming, Mount oriel, Collon. People with broken bones came from Louth, Meath and Monaghan to him, to get their bones set and he was never known to fail. As it was a terrible ordeal(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
