School: An Chill, Dúngarbhán (roll number 630 or 16748)
- Location:
- An Chill, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0650, Page 120
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- The old cures differed very much from the cures that are now used. There is a well about a mile form my house called Tobar a Sceitín and all the local people suffering pains in their stomachs used to drink the water of this well as a cure. Some of the local people use this cure still.
The cure they and for banishing warts was to get a snail and to prod him with a the thorn of a black-thorn tree. Then they rubbed the green liquid that comes through the holes made by the thorn in the snails shell on the wart. After doing this they hung him on the tree. it is said that as the snail decays that the wart will disappear.
Anyone that had sore eyes used the water that drops from the breast of the Naoin Muirín and also the water of the Blessed Well to cure them. Anyone who had a cow suffering from what they called lagairíneac would dig a sod on which the cow laid her diseased hoof and turn it face downwards in the same hold from which he dug it. Lagairíneac was a disease which cows got in their hoofs. They called this cure the turning of the sod.
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Mumhanaigh
- Gender
- Male
