School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)a few hours. Then it is taken off and red flannel placed in its stead
8. Another cure is to dip a silk cloth in spring water and then put on the neck over night.
- 1.Wash them in soda and holy water
- Collector
- Patrick Mulhall
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Chris Mulhall
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- 2.Another way to cure warts is to rub them with a black snail and hang it on a bush.
- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- 3. By rubbing the juice of a dandelion on warts they could be cured.
- Collector
- Alice Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- 4. Warts are cured by stealing a bit of fat bacon and rubbing it on them and then to hide the bacon under stone.
- Collector
- Bill Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr J. Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- 5. When one would be getting up in the morning they could rub their spit on the warts while fasting so as to cure them.
6. Another way to cure a wart is to go to a wart stone and to rub the wart with the holy water that is in the hole in the stone. You must go three times to be cured. - Collector
- Gretta Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- 7.To make the sign of the cross with straw upon the wart it will cure them it.
8.If you put your hand in the water that the blacksmith cools his irons in it will cure warts. - Collector
- Thomas Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
