School: Cill a' Ghaimhrín (Killgevrin) (roll number 12002)
- Location:
- Cill Ghoibhreann, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Proinsíos P. Ó Doláin
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- Long ago the old people had a lot of cures for different sores and diseases. The best cure for a stone-bruise is to get a white root which is found in gardens and to leave on the sore. Sore eyes. To bath them with cold tea. Warts. to get a black snail and hang him to a tree and when the snail begins to wither the wart also withers. Another cure for a wart is to bathe it in the water that lodges on a hollowed stone and to say these words.
Uisge cloc gan iarraidh
Ní ghá iarradh ata mé
Achr fanacaí Dia orm
Agus ag iarradh iad a cuir díom ata mé
The best way to cure the whooping cough is to catch a hedge-hog and skin him and make soup him and give it to the person three times every day. Another cure for(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Casserly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Margaret Casserly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Ghoibhreann, Co. na Gaillimhe