School: Leitre (roll number 16164)
- Location:
- Lettera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 084
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- Long ago the people had cures. There is one of them. When you would cut your hand with a knife. Cobweb would stop the blood. When they used to have sore eyes in olden times. They used cure them by washing them in black tea. They is a blessed well near this school. When they would be cured they used to tie a rag on the bush that is near the well. In olden times they must say mass near the well. When they to have a bile they used to put bacon with it or to put linseed with it. When they used to have a sour tooth they used to put pepper with it. The pepper would not make the tooth sour. When they used to strain their feet they used to go to a water-fall three times.
- Collector
- Patrick Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonnacat, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Brian Raftery
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonnacat, Co. Galway
