School: Corr Garrdha (roll number 15228)
- Location:
- Corgerry Eighter, Co. Galway
- Teachers: M. Ó Dubhláin M. Ó Muineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 498
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- (continued from previous page)The cure for sore eyes is to milk a cow into them or to wash them with strong tea.There was once a man and he had a sore hand and he could get nothing to cure it. One day a priest told him to walk till he came to three trees growing together and in one of the trees he would find a well. He walked till he came to Gatestown, Moylough, Co. Galway. He saw the three trees. He went in and put his hand into the well and he was cured. That happened on Saint Oran's day so that is the reason the well is called Cluan Óran.The remedy applied to cure a toothache was a frog. They got a live frog and rubbed it of the tooth.
They cured cuts and sores with the vein side of a cabbage leave.
St. Patrick's leaves were used for healing and drawing wounds.
- Collector
- Kathleen Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynalahy, Co. Galway
