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School: Baile an Churraigh

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Ballincurry, Co. Galway
Teacher:
A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 514

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    were given to the person to eat in order to take away the yellowness.
    6. When people had warts they found an easy way to get rid of them and this is the way the affected person cured himself. Stones were put into a purse and left on the road and the one who lifted the purse would get the warts and the person who had left the stones would get better.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kate Tighe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreen, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Tiernan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonfaghna, Co. Galway