Scoil: Abbeylara

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1. Local Cures (ar lean)

   

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   had the cure of the broken-out mouth. The person with the sore mouth has to get the person with the cure and let him blow his breath on it. The cure for the hiccoughs was to drink water out of a river dividing two counties from each other.

   In the Parish of Abbeylara, there is a holy well. it is said that a Saint prayed at this well. There is a stone beside the well. The Saint knelt on the stone and he left the track of his knees in the stone. People who have any diseases go to the well and they are nearly all cured.

   The cure for a wart was to get a black snail and put him on a thorn, and as the snail would be getting dry the wart would be going away.

   This was told to me by my father

   John Reilly
   Derragh
   Abbeylara
   Aged 56 years.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Reilly

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   56

   Seoladh

   Doire Each, Co. an Longfoirt