School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)
- Location:
- Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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- Clap an ivy leaf or a house leak to the corns and it rots the corn.Sty on eye.
Pull nine thorns of a gooseberry bush and point to the sty nine mornings saying in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost or the dust of the tobacco that's in the pipe in the morning and to rub it on the eye making the sign of the cross.Burn.
Put some ink or lamp oil on the burn and it won't blister.Warts.
If you get water in a rock without looking for it and wash the warts in it it will cure them or if you have any number of warts and put the same number of wisps of straw into a match box and make a parcel of it and throw it on the road and whoever picks it up will take(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas O' Dowd
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo