School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Coillte Craobhacha, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)with a piece of wollen thread. There are days for making the cure of the strain namely Mondays and Thursdays.
- The way to cure a toothache is to steam a pot of hay and hold one's head over it. To cure warts when you meet a third snail rub him three times to the wart. Then stick him onto a thorn and while he is withering the wart will also wither. When the people had a pain in their heads they used to put cold water to it. When they had a pain in their backs they used to crawl through a hole in a wall. When they had a pain in their legs they used to point nine red nails to it and throw them all away only the last one. The used to crawl out under a briar or under an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Donnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Seanmhullach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Mick Grimes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 86
- Address
- Coillte Craobhacha, Co. an Longfoirt
