School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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- (continued from previous page)kept boiling water in your mouth that it could cure you.
There is a cure for stopping blood a certain prayer can be said and it would stop it.
There is a cure for the stopping of blood also by a charm. There lived a man in sliabh na gGlusa named Curtis. This man had three hands and he was a smith. One day St. Patrick came to him and asked him to change the shoes in his horses in order that he would not be traced so St. Patrick gave him a charm that he could stop blood. This man gave the charm to the Curtis's of Kilnaboy and they can stop blood
- Collector
- Seán Ó Loingsigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Teeskagh, Co. Clare
