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School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 318

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A cure for the chin-cough is to drink asse’s milk. A cure for warts is to rub a piece of fat to them, and hide it in the thatch until it rots, as it rots the warts will disappear. Another cure for warts is to toss two half-pennies at a cross-road and leave them there, and whoever picks up will take the warts.


Collected by:- Eamon Ó Níalláin, Roughan.
Told by:- Edward Neylon, Roughan, (his father) (52 years).

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Leigheasanna

A man and woman whose names would be McMahon before they would get married their eldest child can cure St. Anthony’s fire. A cure for warts is a fasting spit for three mornings. Another cure for warts is to count all the warts and to get a small stone for every wart and to put them a small bag and leave them at a cross-road, and whoever picks up the bag of stones will get the warts.


Collected by:- Máire Ní Dhiolúin, Crossard.
Told by:- Martin McMahon Crossard, (her grandfather) (66 years).

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Collector
Máire Ní Dhiolúin
Gender
female
Address
Crossard, Co. Clare
Informant
Martin Mc Mahon
Relation
grandparent
Gender
male
Age
66
Address
Crossard, Co. Clare
Language
English

Leigheasanna

The cure for a cold is a herb called “louchail” and sugar mixed. Another cure is alley compaign. It is a herb somewhat like water-cress. Slawnless (or rib leaf) is a cure for a cut and also a spider’s web. A cure

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