School: Cnoc Breac
- Location:
- New Inn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Maoldúin
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- (continued from previous page)curing this disease.
Pains in the side were cured by the application of a poultice of boiled chicken-weed to the affected part, and a well-known remedy for kidney trouble was the drinking of water in which the roots of the dandelion weed has been boiled.
For sores pimples etc. a spit applied before breakfast for nine consecutive mornings to the sore was used as a remedy.
Milk left by the ferret when eating was a cure for whooping cough.
People used to go to the holy wells to seek relief for(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kevin Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrynamanagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Melody
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Corrabaun, Co. Galway