School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín
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- If a person has a pain in his ear, it is said if he applies a poultice of a roasted onion to it, it is supposed to cure the pain.
- Collector
- John Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisheeny, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Hugh Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisheeny, Co. Galway
- A very strange cure for boils is a poultice of turpentine, soap and sugar.
- If a person suffering from cramps gets a piece of copper wire and ties it around the place where he suffers from them, it it said he will be cured before nine days. If a person suffering from teeth-ache drinks (hot) cold tea without any milk in it, it is(continues on next page)
