School: An Scairbh (C.)
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)was boiled in. A rock which gathers water in the middle removes warts also. A jug of boiling water used to cure a pain in the ear by leaving the ear on the jug. When children are bad with measels they are cured by a prescribtion from a man on a white horse. Soap and sugar used to cure a boil.
To go out barefooted in the early dew used to cure a corn. If you asked a man who never saw his father what was the cure for the "Craos galair" whatever he would say would cure the child
- Collector
- Tessie Durack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moynoe, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Durack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynoe, Co. Clare
