School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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- People say a spider's web will stop a wound from bleeding. An ivy leaf will heal a wound. The cure for a burn is flour and sheep-dip mixed together. The heart of a stone cures consumption. The cure for warts is to find water on a stone when you are not searching for it and dip the warts in it. A person that never saw his or her father has the cure of foul-mouth. The seventh son has the cure of ring-worm
- Collector
- Peggy Guihen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Guihen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon