School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 546
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- (continued from previous page)Ghost". It would Cure the whooping cought. To put the sign of the cross on a sty with a gooseberry thorn, and then to prod it, it cures a sty. The juice of a dock-leaf cures the sting of a nettle. A cure for a whitlow is to cut up black snails, and put them to it. There is a mission cross in the Church-yard in Graigue and it is said if you cut off a little piece of it and put it in your mouth it will cure a tooth-ache. Fr Mac Donald's grave is in the grave yard in Graigue and it is said if you put a stone off it into your mouth it would cure a tooth-ache. Gladam is a cure for the mumps or swollen tonsils.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Collector
- Peggy Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Collector
- Rosie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Catherine Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny