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School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)

Location:
Carran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 13_039

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    charm for curing Jaundice
    Neuralgia
    To drink much new milk and you will never get neuralgia.
    Warts
    There is a well about two miles from my house and if you went to the well, did round there and brought home a bottle of the water and rubbed it to the warts it would cure them. The place where the well is, is called Bearneen.
    Soreneck
    There is a day called Saint Blazers Day and people go to Ennis to the Friars and they get blessed and they never get a sore-neck for the year.
    Headache
    To drink some of the water the smith do have cooling irons.
    Toothache
    to take a smoke of a pipe,
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Bhueronica Ní Conmara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcorney, Co. Clare