School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Droim Raithne, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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- (continued from previous page)ed out under a donkeys leg three times,
To raise the palate of the mouth the white of an egg is put on the hand and some of the hair is caught in a pineers and pulled until the palate is raised.
To raise the pit of the stomach the person is left on the broad of his back, and a glass tumbler us left on his stomach, a lighted candle is placed on a penny and left inside the tumbler. The candle burns away the air and the stomach lifts up and takes the place of the air. This is how the pit of the stomach is raised. Bernard Larty of Baskins has the power to lift the pit of the stomach.
The act of rubbing a gold ring of wildfire will cure it.
- There is a field belonging to Thomas Campbell and there is a plant growing in it called "Mouses Ear." It has to be boiled in milk and drank. It cures a disease called gravel.
- Collector
- Teresa Shanley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fiar Mór, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Thomas Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Baile Bháltair, Co. na hIarmhí
