School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- (continued from previous page)A cure for the chin-cough is to drink asse’s milk. A cure for warts is to rub a piece of fat to them, and hide it in the thatch until it rots, as it rots the warts will disappear. Another cure for warts is to toss two half-pennies at a cross-road and leave them there, and whoever picks up will take the warts.
Collected by:- Eamon Ó Níalláin, Roughan.
Told by:- Edward Neylon, Roughan, (his father) (52 years). - A man and woman whose names would be McMahon before they would get married their eldest child can cure St. Anthony’s fire. A cure for warts is a fasting spit for three mornings. Another cure for warts is to count all the warts and to get a small stone for every wart and to put them a small bag and leave them at a cross-road, and whoever picks up the bag of stones will get the warts.
Collected by:- Máire Ní Dhiolúin, Crossard.
Told by:- Martin McMahon Crossard, (her grandfather) (66 years).- Collector
- Máire Ní Dhiolúin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Mc Mahon
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- The cure for a cold is a herb called “louchail” and sugar mixed. Another cure is alley compaign. It is a herb somewhat like water-cress. Slawnless (or rib leaf) is a cure for a cut and also a spider’s web. A cure(continues on next page)