School: Dún Mór (cailíní)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Halliday
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- (continued from previous page)the mixture into the oats to be sown.
- Take a piece of the nail of each finger and each toe. Then get nine pieces of different kinds of iron, put the patient through a skein of woollen thread nine times. Afterwards bury nails and iron in a place where they will never be recovered and the patient is supposed to be cured of convulsions for the remainder of his life.
- Cures
1.heard from Peter Noonan
2. Kildare, Williamstown, Co. Galway.
3. Aged 72 years.
Farmer.Burdock (Cradán) was boiled and the liquid drunk as it is a great blood purifier. The wild carrot was used for curing kidney trouble. Broom was used to cure gravel, kidney trouble fever pain and it was used as a blood purifier. Tail Worm in cattle was cured by cutting the tail(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eibhlín Ni Ailledéa
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Peter Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kildaree, Co. Galway