School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

Location:
Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 202

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  1. In a certain place in West Meath there is a chair. It is supposed to be St. Patrick's chair. If you have a pain in your back it will be cured if you sit on the chair and if you have no pain and sit on the chair you will never have a pain in your back.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. backache (~25)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellen Nugent
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Christopher Nugent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Umberstown Great, Co. Meath
  2. There is a man inRathmolyon who cures warts you have to count the warts and give him a penny for each wart and after nine days the warts will go.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.