School: Áth Glórach (Aglorach) (roll number 16942)
- Location:
- Ahgloragh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Ainlighe
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- (continued from previous page)If a person had warts and if he was going any place and to see a stone with water in it and he not to know it was if he washed his hands with the water the warts would go.
If a person has sore eyes if he washed them with the juice of the buachaill tighe which means her they would get better.
Burns
If a person was burned the best cure is to rub gob oil on the burn and it would get better quick. This bog oil used to be got in logholes.
Ringworm
If a person had ringworm people long ago used to say if there was a family of sevens one after another the youngest son would have the cure.- Informant
- Thomas Bodkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Corskeagh Beg, Co. Galway