School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- cure for Warts is to rub a snail three times to it & place it on a gooseberry throrn to 'wither'. As the snail decayed, so would the wart.
- Gretta Butler & Ellie Browne thought to rub a pebble to every wart you had, tie them up in a parcel & throw it on the road to be picked up by somebody who is supposed to get the warts. The went from you then.
- Julia Dempsey & Jack Mc Grath mention the "milk" of the Dandelion as a cure. The former also mentions the milk of the wart-flower which grows in the potato-garden.
- For toothache, people make the sign of the Cross with a frog on their jaws three times.
- Collector
- Jack Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Toothache was cured by getting a frog in the harvest field & rubbing it to the gums three times. When the toothache was gone, the person cured puts the frog back in the same place.
- Sighle Dempsey uses pepper for toothachePeggy Neill " " " "Gretta Butler uses bread-soda & salt [for toothache]
