School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 321
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- (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)
- 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) - Collector
- Áine Ní Chuinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coad, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Cuinn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Coad, Co. Clare
- 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) - 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)
