School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 524
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- (continued from previous page)An admirable cure for the whooping cough is to have a ferret drink milk and give the leavings to the child that has the sickness and it is said that the child would be cured in a short after. People visit Holy Wells as a relief for sore eyes and bad legs. When people have warts if they find water in a stone without looking for it and make the Sign of the Cross three mornings in succession, the warts will disappear.For a sty in the eye, they rub a gold ring to it and it goes shortly after.People who never saw their father i.e those born after their fathers' death - are believed to have power to cure thrush by breathing on three occasions while fasting, on the person who has the disease. An admirable cure for a toothache is to look in the window of the "Rock of Cashel" and it is said to cure it.
- Collector
- Bridie Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Durha, Co. Clare
