School: Stoneyford, Thomastown (roll number 3029)
- Location:
- Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Finghín Mac Íobhair
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- There is a well in Lady's Well and the people go there to the pattern on the 15th of August. They bring home a bottle of that water. There was a woman in Kilkenny and she had very sore eyes for about six months and she sent her daughter for a bottle of the water. When she came home she washed her eyes in the water and the day after her eyes were alright. There is a woman in Lower Grange near Graiguenamanagh and she can cure cancer with herbs which she makes herself and many people go for these herbs. There was a man who was able to cure warts with dandelion and he had a lot of warts on his fingers so he cured them with the white of a dandelion. An onion and salt is a great cure for chilblains.
- Collector
- Kitty Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Norelands House, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Norelands House, Co. Kilkenny
