School: Cloidheach (roll number 12090)
- Location:
- Clydagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Úna Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0023, Page 0127
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- (continued from previous page)when boiled and placed on a broken limb, sets the bone.
Duilleog Pádraig is a green leaf which is supposed to be good for cuts.
There is only one blessed well in the parish – St. Kieran’s Well, and people visit it on the fifteenth of August. In it, a little fish is sometimes seen and it is said that he is no bigger now than when first seen there. There was once a boy living near this well and a wart grew on the pupil of his eye. He got up before the sun arose every morning for nine morning and on that morning the wart fell out.
Gifted people – the seventh daughter of the seventh generation, or the seventh son is supposed to have special cures. A man called John Walsh – known to the people as Sean Ruadh – could cure ringworm, and burra-peisre – a kind of headless boil – by rubbing his tongue of the sore. He could also cure burns with his tongue as persons who rub their tongue of a lizard’s back, are supposed to have a cure for burns, and as he did this he had a cure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clydagh, Co. Galway
