School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 203
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- There is a girl who lives outside Kilmesson. She gives medicine to take and ointment to rub on the sore. Then she will get you to say prayers and go to her three times. It will bleed the third time and then it will disappear.
- Collector
- Elizabeth Grehan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Christopher Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ginnetts Great, Co. Meath
- There is a man who lives in Readstown and he has the cure of the Burst. Then is a herd and it is chopped up finely with sugar. This will cure it. But a better way still is to get goose grease and rub it on the sore. It will heat it more rapidly than the above.
