School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 305
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Coolronan
- XML Page 305
- XML “Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)305 Cure of the ThornMrs Anderson of Coolronan has this cure. She rubs the place where the thorn is with butter and says some prayers which ease the pain. Anyone may get the cure from her & use it. She says prayers when giving it, and then the person using it has only to rub it on with the middle finger of the right hand, three times, blessing themselves each time. A man should take off his cap before using the cure.Cure of the Sty
You should get a goosberry thorn and point it at your eye saying In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Then you would have to get nine more and say the same thing. But you should not point the tenth one but throw it over your right shoulder.
- Collector
- Brighid Nic Eochaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Keogh
- Other names
- Keogh
- Pádraig Mac Eocaidh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
