School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 321
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A cure for sore eyes is to make rounds at the Blessed Tree (or St. Inghine Baoith’s well) on two Mondays and a Thursday and rub the water of the well to your eyes. A herb called eye bright can cure sore eyes by rubbing it to the eye three times.Collected by: - Áine Ní Chuinn, Coad
Told by: - Mícheál O Cuinn, Coad (her uncle)
(60 years) - To take three blades of grass out of a churchyard in the night and chew them is a cure for a toothache. Another cure is to put a dead man’s tooth in your aching tooth.Collected by: Nóra Ni Chasadaigh, Ballycashen
Told by: - Thomas Cassidy, Ballycashen (her father)
(60 years) - If a man licked an “Alp Luachra” he could cure a person of a burn by licking it.A person who never saw his father can cure a disease(continues on next page)
