School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- (continued from previous page)to-day. If one had a toothache, they would fill an old woollen stocking with hot salt and place it on the aching tooth. This would relieve the pain.
If people suffered from a sty in their eye the old cure was to rub a gold ring to it, of if people had sore eyes, they would got to a blessed well, do rounds and wash their eyes with the holy water.
If you met a met on a white horse and asked him for a cure for chin cough he would tell you of a certain bottle and if you would get the bottle, it would cure the cough.
If a person strained his hand he should allow the water from a tap to flow or the hand until it got numb. then he would get great relief.
If a person who has warts, notices without looking for it, water in a stone and rubs the water to the warts, they would disappear in a short time
- Collector
- Bridie O' Dea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonnagurroge, Co. Clare
