School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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- To cure a toothache chew brown paper or inhale tobacco. To cure thrush put honey on the tongue mixed with borax. There is a Holy Well in Mothel. On the second Sunday in July is held the Pattern of Mothel. People with diseases go there and take a drink out the Holy Well and walk the stream three times and leave a relic tied on a sceac bush growing over the Holy Well.
Foughrum and Slawness are used for making plasters for rising fingers and boils . A man named Bowers cures all kinds of ailments with Herbs.
The seventh son is supposed to cure a burn or to be a bishop a priest or doctor. The seventh daughter is said to be a nun or a nurse.
Necklaces are made from flowers, so also are wreathes and crosses
Guns are made out of a elder bough. Birds-cradles are made from a sallow rods. Eyefidels are made from turnips and also lanterns.- Collector
- Peggy Norris
- Gender
- Female