School: Crowenstown
- Location:
- Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhriain
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- (continued from previous page)person's mouth, and after three days the disease is cured.
- The Heart Ache.
To see whether a person was really suffering from this disease, oaten meal was put in a cup, and covered with a cloth. If the meal sank down in the cup the person was suffering from the disease. Some prayers were said over him (or her) then.
The meal had to be baked on a griddle, and given to the patient to eat, and whatever he could not eat had to be given to a dog or burned. - Collector
- Maureen Heffernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Martinstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Joseph Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balrath, Co. Meath
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