School: Craughwell (Girls)
- Location:
- Craughwell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Margaret M. Callanan
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- Eileen Concannon
RahasaneIn our place the following cures are used for warts.
This is one cure to get 3 thrawneens and make the sign of the Cross 3 times in the name of the 3 Divine Persons between 3 different fingers.
Another cure is to bury a piece of meat in some place where it will rot and as the meat is rotting the wart will be decaying.This is a cure we have for a Stye to make the sign of the Cross 3 times every tuesday with a gold ring on your eye. In the spring time people boil young nettles and drink the water as cure for pimples, boils and all skin diseases.For a pain in the ear a piece of roasted ontion is put in the ear at night. A cure for a whitlow is to strike the sore finger against the water that is coming from a pot when potatoes are boiling. A cure for boils also is to place a snail under an egg cup(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Concannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rahasane, Co. Galway