School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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  1. (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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Áine Nic Mhathúna
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycasheen, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Mahon
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Ballycasheen, Co. Clare