School: Anabla
- Location:
- Anablaha, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máighréad Ní Théacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 088
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- (continued from previous page)ing. A child who had chincough was given donkey's milk to drink. This cured the chincough.
To cure a toothache people ate the leg of a frog. If children had a disease called "thrush" the fat of a goose or gander was rubbed to the throat.
Holy wells were visited on certain occasions. If people had sore eyes, or were in bad health they visited a holy well. There is a story told in this district of a women who walked to a well near Tralee with her son on her back. This woman was very poor. She was going to "Weathers Well" and she had not even a donkey to carry her. Her son was twelve or thirteen months old and was almost blind. When she came home she found he was much improved. There is another story told of a man who was unable to walk. He went to the same well and was completely cured. He is alive to-day. There is a man living in Abbeyfeale who is one of the old curers.
- Collector
- Sheila Buckley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gattabawn, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Scannell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 40
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gattabawn, Co. Kerry
