School: Foynes (B.) (roll number 2813)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Puirtéal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 129
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- It is supposed that a frog put into the mouth three times will cure a toothache or the whooping cough. Babies get thrush in the tongue and it is said to get a goose or a gander and let it screech into the mouth of the child then it is supposed to cure the disease.
There is a Holy Well over near Barrigone. People pay rounds on certain days and for certain ailments such as sore eyes and earache.
The seventh son is generally supposed to be a doctor or a priest.
Old people put a raw potato into their vest pocket for rheumatism. They also put a cobweb into a cut.
- Collector
- Caoimhghín O Concubhair
- Gender
- Male
