School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (B.), Carraig na Siúire

Location:
Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Créigh
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    alive. The bell is rung when the funeral is coming near the chapel three at a time for a man and two for a woman.

    Curtha síos ag Criostóir de Búrca, An Ceathramhadh Liath, Ráth ó gCormaic ó innsint a mháthar, Máire de Búrca, Aois 55
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  2. The bone-setters that lived around here were the late Maurice Connolly and his mother of Ballyclough. It is not certain whether he did any great jobs of bones or not. Not one of his children is a bone-setter.
    There is another great bone-setter named Pat Walsh of Coolnahorna and he is still alive. His father was able to mend bones also and he was a cousin to the Walsh's of Tinhalla who were also great bone-setters. The Walshs of Tinhalla were related to the Walshs of Barnakill in Stradbally, and the Walshs of Ballykeorage were great bone setters to. There is another great bone setter Jim Bolger of Cluanasgeac, Slievenamon. He is over eighty years of age and he still sets bones.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. broken or dislocated bones (~21)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Seathrún Ó Muirigheasa
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockalafalla, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Pádraig Ó Muirigheasa
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Knockalafalla, Co. Waterford