School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 069
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- Long ago people used to put a frog in their mouths to cure a tooth-ache. Not far from our school there is a blessed well. The name of it is St. Commenats well. People go there every year to get cure from many diseases. There is a red fish in this well and any person who sees the fish it is said that they would get cured.
There are several old cures for warts. One was to get a snail and rub the snail to the warts and put the snail on the thorn of a white-thorn bush and when the snail would be rotted away the warts would be rotted away. Another remedy for warts was to steal a piece of meat and when the meat would be rotted the warts would be rotted.
The seventh son was able to cure the hooping cough. If a child had the hooping cough and the father of that child asks the seventh for a cure anything he orders is able to cure it.
The posthumous child is able to cure back achers and rheumatiom by walking across yout back.
- Collector
- Ned Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackenavea (Egremont), Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Martin Gleeson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lackenavea (Egremont), Co. Tipperary
