School: Leithrinn
- Location:
- Leithrinn, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Seán Ó Labhradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)"Maireann Pádraig". If they said any word of this prayer wrong the person would not be cured.
The old people also had a cure for a cut. If a person had a cut on their hand they put a cobweb on it. When a person had teethache they put a bit of tobacco into the tooth.
When a person had wart they stole a piece of bacon. They rubbed it on the wart. Then they hid it under a stone. After seven days the wart was gone. The cure for the whooping cough was to give milk to a ferret and all the milk the ferret would not drink to drink it.
The cure they had for a sore throat was to put hot potatoes into a stocking and put it on the throat. If a person sprained their foot the cure for it was to hold it under a water fall.
There were cures at blessed wells. There is a blessed bush in Leitra called "The Blessed Bush". There is a well under this Bush. Anyone who took a drink from this well was supposed to be cured. There is a blessed rock in Baovanagh called the Blessed Rock.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairéad Ní Fhloinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tÁthán, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Seán Mágh Fhloinn
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An tÁthán, Co. na Gaillimhe
