School: Cill a' Ghaimhrín (Killgevrin) (roll number 12002)
- Location:
- Kilgevrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Proinsíos P. Ó Doláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0042, Page 0371
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- (continued from previous page)a wart. Potato water is a cure for a stone bruise. If one had a pain in one stomach heat a plate and put it to it and the pain would go. For a pain on ones back put an eel skin on it and it will go. For a cut on your finger put a leaf in it called St. Patrick's leaf and it will stop it from bleeding. To cure a boil heat a bottle and it near it and it will burst it. A cure for a headache is to make a cup of strong tea and drink it and the headache will go. A cure for a wart is to throw a snail upon a bush and while it is withering your wart will be also withering. Another cure for it is to hide a bit of meat and tell no one where it is hide and when fourteen mornings are gone your wart will be also gone. A cure for a sore foot is to warm a weed called the chicken weed and put it to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilgevrin, Co. Galway
