School: Cnoc Breac
- Location:
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Maoldúin
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- (continued from previous page)head-aches. No-body unless he possessed these healing powers, knew what they were because if they did the charm would lose its potency.
The leaves of the garlic when boiled and applied as a poultice to the necks were supposed to cure mumps.
Three meals of boiled nettles taken in the month of March were supposed to render a person immune from such ailments as boils or other skin diseases during the following year.
If a man riding a white horse were asked for a cure for the chin cough it was believed that whatever he suggested had the power of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kevin Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrynamanagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Corrabaun, Co. Galway
