School: Cúl Árann (Clochar)
- Location:
- Coolaran, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr Fionnbharr Nic Chárthaig
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Cures There are many cures for special diseases such as to smoke a pipe when you would have teethache.
If a person had hicough he should drink water from the edge of a cup.
A man or a woman who never saw his father is able to cure craosgalar.
If you have the hooping cough you now should drink from a vessel that a ferret has drunk from and also when you see a man with a white horse passing by to say to him in Irish man of the white horse give me a cure
When you have a pain in your side you should throw a spit under a stone.
The seventh son is called a doctor and he is able to cure craosgalar.
If there is a thorn in your finger you rub a fox tounge of it.
Annie Delaney. Thomas Delaney
Monard
- Collector
- Annie Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monard, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monard, Co. Galway
