School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)
- Location:
- Cluain Dá Thiompar (Brown), Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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- Diseases and Cures.
1. Sore ear. Burn an onion and put it into the ear until cured.
2. Nettle sting. Put a dock leaf to it.
3. Thorn in Foot. A foxes tongue will draw it out.
4. Dun bola - If a person has a bun bola it is a great cure to put snails to it.
5. Chin Cough. To ask a man with a white horse for a cure.
6. Pains in the Bones. Kill a waterhen and boil it. Then to rub the oil of it on the bones.
7. Sore Eyes. Squeeze the juice of a certain plant into it that grow in the sides of thatched houses.
8. Toothache. A frog in the mouth
9. Headache. Get head measure and bind with measure (2) Drink(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joe Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tigh an Ghrianáin, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Mrs Lyons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Cotáiste, Co. na Gaillimhe