The cures for Rheumatism are to beat the affected part with nettles, or to blister it with a herb called the lion’s paw. A cure for a cut is to put St Patrick’s leaf to it. A cure for warts is to go to the Blessed Well at Cill Bhaighdeáin on a Thursday and two Mondays, or two Thursdays and a Monday, and leave a penny or a half-penny there, and rub the water to the warts.

There was a man living in Leana who could cure a headache. It was called “Afternoon fever”. The patient should go to him on two Mondays and a Thursdays. He cured it by measuring the head from the chin to the top and around it. He would then get the white of an egg and say prayers over it. He would put a little of it on the patient’s head, and leave it there for three weeks. Then the headache would go.