School: Killashandra
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Leannáin
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point one of them towards the eye every day for nine days and the stye will go away.
Pain in head cure is; Go to a potato field and get a crow foot leaf and bring it in and break it up like tobaco and snuff it and your pain will go.
If you get a sting of a nettle get a dock leaf and rub it saying "Dock in" "Dock out" take sting of the nettle out
Warts; Get ten rushes and throw away one and hide the other nine where nothing will eat them.
Cure of sprain; Terry Gillis, Dernacross has the cure of a sprain. He takes of his cap and says some prayers, then he makes the sign of the cross over the sprain three times in the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghavadrin, Co. Cavan
