School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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- XML “Local Cures - Gólóg na nAlt or Góilín na nAlt”
- XML “Local Cures - Cure for Seile Seáin or Sine Seáin or Fallen Palate”
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- (continued from previous page)practices the cure, and a next door neighbour of mine who had to be carried out to a motor-car when going there, got cured about two years ago. Recently a solicitor from Navan got cured after he had tried many doctors unsuccessfully. But some have failed to get cured. The Explanation is that she can cure Sciatica but not Neurites.
- (When a person is suffering from Fallen Palate he cannot either eat or drink and is in a terrible state.)I was brought by my mother on a donkey cart to Kells. We went to the house of the Gaw-geen Plunket, but he was in bed drunk and snoring. His wife told my mother to come back in a couple of hours and that she would have him up. When we(continues on next page)
