School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0314
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- Cure of Dirty Mouth.There is an old man named Mattew
Gray, my Grandfather living close
to where I live, who has a great
power of curing the disease called
the Dirty Mouth.This disease is known by a number
of little white blisters gathered on
the roof of the mouth and on the
tongue.Nobody has this cure unless a
person who never saw his father.The way he cures this disease is when the
child who has the disease is brought
to him he draws his breath upon
it, and says some special prayers.He has aired many in his lifetime
of the same disease. They often
have to come three times in
succession to get this cure applied to
them.
- Collector
- Éilís Ní Ceallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr M. Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath
