School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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- (continued from previous page)is to get a fox's tongue and boil it in milk and then put it on your hand and it will be cured next day.
- 1) If a person got a stye on his eye he should get the coulter of a plough that had ploughed during the spring and put it in the fire. At the same time while the coulter is in the fire he should get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and leave each thorn against the stye. The person should do this every day for three days.2) If a person had mumps in his throat he should get the roots of bullrushes and boil them. Then he should put them into a cloth and leave them on his throat for night.3) If a person got a cut of a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miceál Mac Giollacomáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
