School: Ladhar an Chrompáin (roll number 14998)
- Location:
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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- 1. The cure for a tooth-ache is to crack a frog's leg in your mouth.
2. A cure for the "thrush" is to stick a gander's bill into your mouth for nine mornings, or the food left after a ferret.
3. The Siobháinín Fhalla is used for a cut.
4. If a person had a pain in the back and the seventh son of any family should stand on his back the pain would be cured.
5. Slánlus was put to a cut to stop bleeding.
6. The cailleach-crón was put into butter and eaten as a cure for jaundice.
7. For a person having a heavy cold, a kind of syrup was made up of brown-sugar, garlic and
8. They also used the root of an herb called "compaine".
9. If a person had a bad sprain in the leg, a herb called comfry was put to it. - There was a poet named Shane Nolan living in Cloghane-na-Glearach. His name among the people was Shane Aerach. He composed in English but he had a knowledge of Irish becuse the people round about conversed in Irish. None of his poems are now known. He went to America when he was about 30(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairín Nic Síthigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghaneleskirt, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Eamonn Mac Síthigh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Cloghaneleskirt, Co. Kerry