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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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)

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)

Collector
Nóra Ní Chasadaigh
Gender
female
Address
Ballycasheen, Co. Clare
Informant
Thomas Cassidy
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
60
Address
Ballycasheen, Co. Clare
Language
English

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

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