School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Uí Raghaill, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 254
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- (continued from previous page)Charles Frizzle got him one time to cure him and its what he walked on his back on Friday and he was cured.
Warts
If a person has warts on their hands and if he gets water in a rock without looking for it and he washes his hands in it he will be cured. If a person has five warts on their hands and get a match mox and puts five pieces of straw in it and throw it on the road and whoever would pick up the parcel would take the warts. If a person goes out on a May morning and wash their hands and face in the dew of the grass they would take no warts for that years.
Headfever
There was a man named Jamed Davey, Purthinch, who had the cure. He measured the head with a tape and know that it was head fever the person had. Tobacco is used in the cure and some prayers are said.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joe Mc Guinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- An Rinn Bhán, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Frank Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Rinn Bhán, Co. Shligigh
