School: Fergus View, Lissycasey (roll number 10322)
- Location:
- Caherea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Gearaidh
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- If you eat three bits of palm of Palm Sunday you would not get sick for the year.
The cure for a sore eye is to look through a gold ring three times.
If you had a boil in your neck the cure is to roast a wild carrot and put it on the boil.
If you found water on a rock and not to be searching for it it would cure a wart.
Not to eat meat on Saint Stephen's day is a cure for very bad sickness.
- Informant
- James Brown
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lanna, Co. Clare
- "If the roof of your mouth was sore, a child who never saw his father to blow his breath fasting into your mouth is a cure for a sore mouth."
"Meacan na tahri is a cure for boils."
