School: Feighroe, Inish
- Location:
- Connolly, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0608, Page 081
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- Toothache - The cure for a toothache was. If you were going along the road and if you happened to get a potato lost and if you put it up you would not get a toothache. Also if you kept a leg of a hare in your pocket you would not get a toothache.Earache - For an earache it was the custom to roast the heart of an onion.Warts - To cure warts was if you met a pool of water on a stone and not to be looking for it and you should make the sing of the Cross and the warts would go.Chin-cough - To cure the chin-cough if you met a man with a white horse and to ask him what cure he had for the chin-cough. The three next cures he would give you would cure it.Stomach-ache - For a stomach-ache the cure is to drink three spoons of salt and water in the name of the Blessed Trinity.Burn - To cure a burn is snow water and also anybody who ever licked a lizard could ease the pain of a burn.Sore eyes - To cure sore eyes was to rub water of a Blessed Well on them.Kidney trouble - The cure for kidney trouble was to boil "toirpeen" and drink the water.Murrian - To cure a murrian they used to boil St. Patrick's leaf an give it to the cattle and it would cure them.Black quarter - To cure black quarter they used to give them garlic.
- Collector
- Michael Neylon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Neylon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Connolly, Co. Clare
