School: Aughagrania (roll number 14670)
- Location:
- Aghagrania, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Miss Róisín Mulvey
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- The old people had several cures for different diseases. For the cure of they warts they used to get water out of Saint Patrick's well. Another cure for warts is to rub a snail to them and then hang the snail on a bush. When the snail is withered the warts will be gone. There is a cure for swelling in Lough Ioc which is beside Kiltubrid. The water has to be brought in three different bottles and corked with the mud of the lake. The person that goes for the cure has not to speak to anyone on his way comming or going. The cure for the whooping cough is to drink a ferrets leavings. Another cure for the whooping cough is to go under an ass foal three times that has never been rode. The cure for a stye on your eye is to pull ten goosberry thorns point nine of them to the eye and throw away the last one. This is to be done only on Monday and Thursdays. There is a holy well beside Ballinmore called Saint Brigids well and people visit it on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie May Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghagrania, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Michael Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Aghagrania, Co. Leitrim
