Healers and Healing: Further Reading:

Fleetwood, J., The History of Medicine in Ireland, Dublin, Skellig Press, 1983

Hatfield, G., Encyclopaedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, Santa Barbera, ABC-Clio, 2004

Larson, C.A, Alternative Medicine, Greenwood, Westport, 2007

Logan, P., Making the Cure, Dublin, Talbot Press, 1972

Logan, P., The Holy Wells of Ireland, London, Smythe, 1980

McClafferty, George, “Sweathouses in Ireland” in Baile, Dublin, 1979, 31-35

Moore, R. & McClean, S., Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2010

Ó Crualaoich, G., The Book of the Cailleach - Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer, Cork University Press, 2003.

O’Regan, P., Healing Herbs in Ireland, Dublin, Primrose Press, 1997

Ó Súilleabháin, S., ‘Folk-Medicine’, A Handbook of Irish Folklore, Dublin, Singing Tree Press, 1970

Thomas, K., Religion and the Decline of Magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1978