School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 343
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- A person that has craos-ghalair should go to a posthumorous son and let him breathe into his mouth. He should go to the person seven times.
Once there lived a woman whose husband was in hospital in Dublin.
One day a travelling woman came.
She asked where was the man of the house and was told he was ill and was coming home uncured.She told the woman of the house to get a porcupine and to boil it and to give him the broth to drink. She did so and it cured him.
- For sore eyes they rubbed their fasting spit three mornings or else they rubbed a gold ring for three mornings.
For ring-worm they wrote their names around it.
For a pain in the side(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eliza Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolkeragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
