On the 23d inst. An inquest was held before William Ryan, Esq., Coroner, in the church yard of Tubrid in this County, on the body of a male child, when the following circumstances were elicited from John Buckley, the father of the child. On Friday the 19^th of April, having heard that there was a woman in the neighbourhood, who was clever at curing sick persons, he went to her, and told her had a little boy sick for a long time, and that he could neither walk or stand. She asked deponent would he like the child could walk, and deponent answering in the affirmative, well said she I will cure your son. She then desired depononent [sic] to bring a pint of porter; he brought it to her, and she then got some fresh green herbs, amongst the was the Luskmore, and put them into the porter, which she boiled, and then told me to apply a ‘poultice of the herbs to the child’s heart’ and give him the porter to drink. Deponent gave him the porter in two draughts, the child vomited in about two hours after the dose, and complained of a pain in his side and bowels. The woman told me that the boy was not his son at all and that he was a fairy! Deponent did not believe her entirely, but he had doubts whether he was his son or not: the woman told him she would bring him back his son, and that she would put the deceased to sleep, and that he would go away the same way he came and that this time soon would come in place of him [sic]. The boy died in a short time after. The jury returned the following verdict: That the deceased was in a delicate state of health, and that his death was accelerated by a portion of porter and herbs administered by a woman unknown. The father of the child was bound in the sum of £5 to prosecute the woman whenever required. Anon, ‘A Female Quack’, 1844