School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

Location:
Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Conaill
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    hole in a rock put the finger with the wart into it and bathe it, another is to rub a black snail to the wart then get a pin and hang the snail to a tree and when the snail is withered the wart will be gone.
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  2. People used to get cured by visiting a holy well. Some people from pains, and the blind often got their sight. A man that was a weaver of cloth could give a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna May Kilgallon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Fallathurteen, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    James Kilgallon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Fallathurteen, Co. Sligo