School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)

Location:
Carran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 18_028

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  1. When a person has warts one cure for them is to wash them with the water which would be in a hollow on a rock, but you must not be looking for the water. Another cure is to get someone to count them for you or to leave a halfpenny at a four-cross-road and the person who finds it will take the warts from you.
    When a person has rheumatism a cure for it is to boil turkey weed and to drink the water with which it was boiled. Also to burn your body with nettles.
    Burn:-
    To lick a lizard and then to lick the burn. To put a podraig's leave into the burn.
    Headache:-
    To dash water against your forhead
    Boils:-
    To boil nettles in the month of March and to eat three meals of them and to drink the water with which the nettles were boiled.
    To put wax into the boil
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Siobhán Ní Lochlainn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castletown, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Stiophán Ó hEidhin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Turloughmore, Co. Clare