School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 067
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- The people who had disease used to go to people who had cures for them. A toothache could be cured by steeping bread in hot water & putting it to the tooth. This was a cure made by Jim Morrissey.
Corns were cured by boiling marshmallows & straining the water off them & then rubbing them to the corns these were cured by Mrs Murphy Flagmount. There is a holy well in Skeough. People used to take water from it to cure headaches.
- Collector
- Nancy Lawlor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
