School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)Garlic is also given to those who had colds.
(4) Burns:- Any one who licks a man keeper three times can cure any burn.
(5) Warts:- The water of three town lands is a cure for warts.
(6) Wild Fire:- A fasting spit rubbed to the wild fire, or gold, or to hold a hot coal near it.
(7) Sprains:- The person who makes the straining thread gets a bit of wollen thread and prays over it. This thread is tied on the sprained part of the body and is left there until it falls off itself.
(8) Tooth ache:- Clay got at any holy well is a cure for tooth ache.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon