School: Dromclough (C.),
- Location:
- Kilcarra Beg, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)nine mornings and the child would be cured. Sometimes they went to doctors for their ailments, when they could not cure themselves, they used charms very much of a pain in the tooth.
On Saint Martin's night a goose was killed, and a white cloth was soaked in the blood, and that was supposed to cure a pain in the side and if anyone had a sore leg or a sore hand Saint Patrick's leaf was used for drawing and healing it. They used goats' milk very much, because the goat eats all (all) the herbs of the land, and those who drank goats milk were supposed to be cured of any illness they had.
When the old people had a cold in the eyes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Hannon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Flaherty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Mountcoal, Co. Kerry
