School: Baile an Churraigh
- Location:
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Teacher: A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 345
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- (continued from previous page)(v) if sore eyes are washed with cold tea, they will be cured very quickly.
(vi) If dust or dirt enters the eye it may be taken out with the gooseberry thorn.
(vii) Raganna a humpney (found in a bog) is good for cuts or burns.
(viii) If a man whose father, (he never) was dead before he was born, blew three times into a persons mouth, it would cure "thrush".
- Collector
- Mary K. Mee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Tiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfaghna, Co. Galway
