1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools’ Collection
  3. Co. Clare
  4. Killinaboy

School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

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

Filter stories

Back
/ 370 Forward
Resolution: Low | High
Killinaboy | The Schools’ Collection

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 321

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD. See copyright details »

On this page

Leigheasanna (continued)

(continued from previous page)

A third cure is to put a brown paper inside the cloth.


Collected by: - Tomás O Dubhlainn, Leachtagoona.
Told by: - Simon Doolin Leachtagoona, (his father)
(55 years)

Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
History | Edit »

Leigheasanna

A cure for sore eyes is to make rounds at the Blessed Tree (or St. Inghine Baoith’s well) on two Mondays and a Thursday and rub the water of the well to your eyes. A herb called eye bright can cure sore eyes by rubbing it to the eye three times.

Collected by: - Áine Ní Chuinn, Coad
Told by: - Mícheál O Cuinn, Coad (her uncle)
(60 years)

Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
History | Edit »
Collector
Áine Ní Chuinn
Gender
female
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Informant
Mícheál Ó Cuinn
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
60
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Language
English

Leigheasanna

To take three blades of grass out of a churchyard in the night and chew them is a cure for a toothache. Another cure is to put a dead man’s tooth in your aching tooth.

Collected by: Nóra Ni Chasadaigh, Ballycashen
Told by: - Thomas Cassidy, Ballycashen (her father)
(60 years)

Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
History | Edit »

Leigheasanna

If a man licked an “Alp Luachra” he could cure a person of a burn by licking it.

A person who never saw his father can cure a disease

(continues on next page)
Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
History | Edit »