School: Sraithín (roll number 12808)

Location:
Sraheen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Croidhean

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 175

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22/11/38
If a person has a wart and if he rubs a snail on the wart and sticks the snail on a thorn when the snail is withered the wart will be gone.
If a person has a wart and if he washes it with water from a stone and not to be searching for it, it is said it will cure it.
If a person has the ring worm and if he goes to a house in which there are seven sons without a daughter in between and if the seventh son makes the sign of the cross over it, it will go.
Told by:
John Staunton, Stonehall, Foxford
Age: 40 yrs
Occupation: Farmer
Where born: Stonehall
Where he spent his life: At home.

Collector
Edward Kirby
Gender
male
Address
Stonehall, Co. Mayo
Informant
John Staunton
Gender
male
Age
40
Occupation
farmer
Address
Stonehall, Co. Mayo
Language
English