School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Coill an Chláir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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- (continued from previous page)shoulder and bury the other seven in the ground and while the seven are decaying the warts will go.
Warts
Get a black snail and rub it to the warts and then put the snail hanging on a thorn and while the snail is withering the warts are decaying.
Jaundice
Pat Mac Namee of Annaghkeenty cured jaundice. He got a certain herb and boiled it in milk and water and added some sugar to it. The person having the jaundice had to take this cure for three nights in succession and then he would be cured.
- Warts
Long ago the people who wanted warts cured went to a corpse house and laid the hand with the warts on it on the corpse and the were cured.
Burn
George Taylor made a cure for a burn. He made it from hog's lard and daisies(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Mollohan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coill an Chláir, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs Mollohan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Coill an Chláir, Co. Liatroma
