School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)the sprain but she would not tell any body what she says.
She rubs the joint and says a prayer but no body knows what she says.
She got it from her father he could give it to a woman but not to a man and she could give it to a man but not to a girl.
- Long ago when people were afflicted with illness they would have no doctors to attend them but they believed in their old cures.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Adina Heaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumegil, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Boylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumegil, Co. Cavan
