School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)specialise in any particular case of heart disease but he is credited with prolonging the lives of some persons after all other remedies had failed. How remedy is applied.
- The cure locally prescribed-melt a bit of a "blessed candle" and put it into the decayed tooth.
- The ingredients for the cure of the burn consists of a collection herbs, namely the daisyrod, blackberry leaf, the laurel leaf, hollyhock, yarrow leaf, the leaves are mixed with lard fried on a pan and applied to the part effected.
- Joseph Murray Bracklin said his father licked a lizard with his tongue, this little animal is also called a "mankeeper." The person who licks the lizard can by licking the burn cure it.
- Broken bones are nearly always treated by a Bonesetter, this faculty is descended or handed down from father to son, and sometimes a woman of the family can undertake and set broken or disjointed bones with success. A bone setter by the name of Muldoon is the local person he lives in the Parish of Fore.
