School: Kilskeer (C.) (roll number 1563)
- Location:
- Cill Scíre, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhithcheallaigh
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The cure of the toothache is to go to Kiern churchyard late at night to the scull hole and take a booth out of one of the sculls with your teeth.
A man up in Girley has the cure of the toothache and the running worm. He cures the running worm by putting his hand to it. - 33
Any two of the one name that would be married the leavings of their breakfast is a cure for the whooping cough.
There is a woman in Maghera who has a Bishops scull if anyone that had the whooping cough drank out of it he would be cured.- Collector
- Nancy Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain Chat, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- James Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain Chat, Co. na Mí
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