School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)SORE EYES
(1) Wash the eyes with the due on the grass May morning.
2 In the summer time, when the river was very low for weeks. The old people travelled along the river and collected the water they found in the holes on the rocks, into a bottle, This water they kept for sore eyes.
3 The juice of the root, of the stuble of corn - the second year's crop, if rubbed to the eye 3 mornings in succession, and make the sign of the cross on the eye with it, is the best cure for a sore or, black eye. you should be fasting.THE THRUSH OR CRAORGALER
1 Get a grey gander, hold his beek near the child's mouth so that the gander's beek would inter the mouth.
2 A person whose father was dead before he or she was born, can cure the trush.FAVEY IN HORSES
The seventh son can cure this disease.THE SEVENTH SON
If he drew a ring round a worm on the floor, the worm should stay in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita O Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meennaraheeny, Co. Cork
