School: Cillíní Díoma (roll number 15071)
- Location:
- Killeenadeema, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Uinsionn Ó Conáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0188
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- 1. To boil the Ribéil Rí and give it to cattle with the mourn
2. For a sore mouth the person that never saw his father to breath into his mouth
3. For a corn to put a pigs gall on it or an ivy lead steeped in vinegar
4.The seventh son of a family to breath on boils or ringworm and it would cure it
5. If a horse had pains to pull young gorge and break them and mix them with oats and give them to it
6. For a sore throat, to crush roasted potatoes in a woollen stocking and put them to it
7. If a person who has consumption swallies the long black snail it would cure it
8. If a person with a sprained foot held it under a water fall it would cure it
9. For sores, to rub goose grease on it.
10. A man riding on a white horse is supposed to have a cure for the chin cough
11. If a person had a cold they should drink scáilrín
12. A person with a sty in his eye should measure a gold ring to it nine times to cure the sty.
- Informant
- Máirtín Ó Connaire
- Gender
- Male
