School: Drumbaniffe, Crusheen
- Location:
- Drumbonniv, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)live frog into your mouth and then close your mouth over him. He is left there a few minutes and then is taken out.
At Clooney, which is about seven miles east of Ennis, there is a holy well. Some years ago, a cruel landlord closed up the well and sowed a tree over it. The tree grew up and the well may be seen in the trunk of the tree today. At Newhall, there is a well called St. John's Well. Every 29th of June hundreds of people may be seen there doing rounds for different ailments.
A poultice of bog-onion is a cure for a sprained limb. The onion is pounded and pressed to the sprain, and then is covered with a bandage.
Lar Brohan of Spancilhill, which is about four miles north east of Ennis, had a cure for boils, as he was the seventh son. Michael Heath of Parkalough, Crusheen, Co. Clare had a cure for stopping blood.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonalough, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonalough, Co. Clare
