School: Cluain Laighean (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 266
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- Dust in eye. Look into a bowl of water until the tears come in your eye
Hicup. Tickle the palm of your hand
Bleeding. Put your hand into a baisin of cold water and the blood will stop
Sleep in Foot. Spit in your finger and rub it of your Foot.
Measles. The juice of dandelion cures measles
Running Ear. Heat a little salt and put it on your Ear
Cramps. Put your finger between (between) your two small toes and smell them
Colic. Redden the tongs and stir into milk
Black eye. Bathe in hot water and apply raw liver
Wasp Sting. Put a grain of blue on it poisin kills the other.
Comsumption. Roiling a person in mud it is said to be cured.
Sore Mouth. If a child never saw their father if they breath into your mouth they cure your sore mouth
Sty in eye Set 10 gooseberry thorns. Point(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Collector
- James Haran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tomboholla, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Dominick Harrison
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Tomboholla, Co. Mayo
