School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 08_015
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- (continued from previous page)críos-galar by blowing her breath into the sick persons mother three times
Children get the Críos-galar when they are very young.
The girl has that charm because she never saw her father.
4. There is a woman named Mrs Linnane living in Tyrone who can cure boils and cancers by a plaster made by some herb.
5. A married woman named Mary can cure sore eyes by getting the patient to look through her marriage ring. Then she makes the sign of the cross with the ring on the eye and the person will never get a sore eye ever again.
- Collector
- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Tyrone, Co. Galway
