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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill Chaoi

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Kilkee, Co. Clare
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Máire Gromail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0628, Page 143

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    through a wedding ring three times.
    Burns:-
    Anybody who licks a lizard can cure burns by touching the burns with their tongue.
    Toothache:-
    Take a bit of mounting off a coffin unknown to anyone.
    Blessed wells:-
    If you go to Tobar Chaoi and perform rounds your eyes would be cured. Saint Michaels well cures all pains. It is in Querin.
    Cure for Boonlocks:-
    Get shells and burts themand put what is in-side in them to your let. This cures it.
    My father.
    Martin Galvin, Postman,
    Pound Street, Kilkee,
    gave me the information
    8-7-'38
    Nora Galvin, Pound Street, Kilkee.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Galvin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pound Street, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Martin Galvin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Postman
    Address
    Pound Street, Co. Clare