School: Enfield
- Location:
- An Mhaighean, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)stuck him on the first thorn-bush they would meet. By the time the snail had withered and died, the wart was supposed to be withered and dead also.
- Get ten thorns off a goose-berry bush and point nine of them at your eye, and throw away the tenth thorn. After a few days the sty is supposed to be cured.
- First get butter-milk, salt and soot and mix them and a little water and the butter-milk to make a paste. Then rub this on the part of the beast where the wart is and it will be cured in a week or so.
- Collector
- John Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cnoc an Leachta (Wills), Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- John Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- An Bhothach, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- James Farrell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Cnoc an Leachta (Wills), Co. Ros Comáin
- There was once a very good-living boy, of sixteen years in the Co Galway(continues on next page)