School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)
- Location:
- Meathas Troim, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 422
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- (continued from previous page)by reciting a prayer.
- By giving a drink of milk to a ferret and giving the leavings to any person suffering from Whooping Cough it is believed that the person suffering from Whooping Cough will be cured.
- There is a man living around Granard who cures cancer. By putting a plaster on the effected part of it is able to draw it right out.
- A man named Gormley who lives near Killoe in a place called Esker cures a sprain by trying a piece of wool, which the old people called "wisted" around the sprain. The cure is effected by reciting a small prayer.
- An old man named Greene in Shantum has the cure of warts. By pulling seven laurel leaves and by making the sign of the sign of the cross with each laurel leaf for(continues on next page)
