School: The Spa, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Spa, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Breathnach
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- Long ago when a person got a cut in his finger, he used to get a cobweb and put (in) it up to the cut. It used to stop the blood and heal the wound.If a person had the whooping cough, and if he wanted to cure it, he used to go to a man who had a white horse and ask him for a cure for it, and whatever that man said was supposed to cure the whooping-cough.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinclemesig, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom Horgan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinclemesig, Co. Kerry