School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 121
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- 1. For a pain in the side the cure old people had was to take up a stone and to spit in it and leave it back in the same place again turned up side down.2. The cure for a stye in the eye was to pick a thorn off a gooseberry bush and to give the stye a pick with the thorn or to rub a gold ring to the stye for three mornings fasting.3. If children had the whooping cough and if one saw a man riding on a white horse and asked for a cure for the whooping cough whatever the man would say, the children should do it, or to drink the leavings of a ferret.4. The cure for a swollen ankle is to bathe it with potato water.
- Collector
- Margaret Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Rose Clancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowreagh East, Co. Clare
