School: Sráid na Cathrach (C.) (roll number 8851)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Bhriain
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- (continued from previous page)and its father is dead it has a cure for chraos-galar.
There's a cure in the water at St. Brigid's blessed well for the bones.
If you have stye on your eye, get a gold ring off a married womans finger and look through it.
To cure a sprain or a bad leg, keep pouring potato water on it.
To cure a person bleeding from the nose, put a key down his or her back
There is a cure in the water at St. Senan's lake for worms.
Goats milk is a great cure for cumption.
If a calf is sick and if you make a certain kind of knot round his body three times and if the knot comes loose the calf will be cured but if it gets tangled the calf will die.
If you hang a piece of green ribbon on the door(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 46
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
