School: Machaire, An Tulach
- Location:
- Maghera, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 193
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(Pisogues) Cures.
if you meet a horse-shoe with an opening towards you pick it up; "the luck is coming towards you".When playing cards if one person is winning a great dealthey say "you went under a briar"A fox's tongue will bring out a thorn.The evening of of a foal when born is called the brath-bone.When this is dried it is a great remedy for a sore- lip.The covering of the head of the foal is called a "cábhail"
Tea leaves can cure sore-eyes.look through a gold ring three times and give the stye a prod of a gooseberry thorn is another cure for a sty.
Burned flour is supposed to cure lumbago.The blood of any fowl killed for St.Martin's day if a piece of tea is worked into it and put up on in the rafter is very good for pains or aches afterwards.
Where the waters of four townlands meet a drop of this water is supposed to cure any disease.Such occurs near John Duloughy's of Carahan.Stackpoole Mahon's ,Creagh's o Briens and Browne's are the four properties.
Clonbeagán,Carahan, Shraheen and Browne's and are the four townlaands.
