School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0250
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- If a person who had a wart on his hand would steal a bit of meat out of some house at night at go and bury it in a grave-yard the wart would go.
The seventh son of the one family has a cure for boils. If a person was sick and he to go to a holy well and bless himself with the water, and if he believed that the water of the well would cure him he would get cured. It is said that if a person had a cut or a sore would catch a lizard and to lick him it would get cured without leaving a mark.
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Curráin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Courtney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagur, Co. Galway
