School: Scoil Dhalláin Forgaill (roll number 16963)
- Location:
- Kilclooney Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: S. Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)is a little well. It is very small. It is said that if you drink three drops of the water it will cure you of the toothache.
A cure for warts.
In olden times the people had a cure for warts. When they came upon a hole in a rock they washed their hands in the water if they had warts on their hands. They said that this would cure them.
A cure for sprain.
They had also a cure for a sprain. If they had a sprained foot or arm they went and pulled some chicken weed. They warmed the chicken weed and they put it on the sprain.
Collected by Misses Mary Gallagher and Peggy Moore from the older members of their families
at Narin, Co Donegal and at Loughfad, Clooney, Co. Donegal respectively
Data 10.10.'38
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Naran, Co. Donegal
- Collector
- Peggy Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughfad, Co. Donegal
