School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Cill Bhláin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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- Collector
- William Horgan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gort na nGall, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr P. Horgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Gort na nGall, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs P. Horgan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gort na nGall, Co. Chorcaí
- Extra: Oil of cloves is a very good cure for a toothache. The posthumous child (man) should go fasting to the patient on a certain number of mornings to cure the Thrush. A cobweb is used to stop bleeding & the injured part was washed in salt-water to prevent festering.
- Extra: to put a snail on a wart was supposed to cure it. If a person dipped his hand in a certain hole in a bridge he would be free from warts for the remainder of his life.