School: Kilmore (roll number 16126)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shamhráin
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- Toothache: go to the graveyard, pick up a skull pull out a tooth with your own tooth you'll nevermore be troubled with toothache.
Eddie mc Dermott(75)
Drumlea
Corrawallen P.O.
Carrigallen
Co. Litrim
- Warts: 1. If you meet a black snail unexpectedly rub him to the wart and put him on a whitethorn bush to decay while he is withering the wart will be disappearing.
2. Get nine straws. Rub them to the warts for 9 days and put them in a place to rot. When they are rotten the wart will disappear. (This revision of the cure given by a Protestant lady Anne Smith, Drumcoula, Ballinamore) - Same cure given by a Catholic adds that the straws must be rubbed while saying "In the name of the Father, Son & holy Ghost."
Tom Kelehan - 3. Water found in a hole in a stone cures warts.
4. Spiders web placed over a wart and set alight. - Informant
- John Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Drumdiffer, Co. Leitrim
