School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 01_024
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- To have a golden ring on a sty on your eye cures it
To steal a bit of meat and rub it to a wart and then bury it in the ground it would cure it.
To catch a snail and rub him to a wart and then stick him in a whitethorn. It is said that while he would be rotting the wart would be withering
If you foot was bleeding and to put a cobweb to it it would stop it or to say the following prayer
As Our Lord was born in the stable at Bethleham
And baptized in the river gordan by St gohn
As the waters of the gordan stand still(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Keely
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
