School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 261
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- (continued from previous page)have toothache.
Another for toothache is to go to the graveyard and lift a skull and pull the (tooth) teeth out with your own teeth.
A cure for a burn is to go to a certain man and get him to lick it and say some prayers and it will go immediately.
There is a man the name of McGovern, in Glan who has the cure for a bite of a mad dog. It was revealed to him in a dream. The herbs are gathered at the early dawn. He makes bread out of them and it is very hard to eat. You have to take it for nine days. When you go to him he gives you a porringer of water to drink and it is said, if the dog was mad that bit you, you(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Dan Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
