Bleeding: Cover the cut with a cobweb.  Another cure was the recitation of an old poem:                       

                        Longenus ainm an fhir

                        a bhain an taobh Chriost amach

                        Ba Mhaith an ni a thainig as-­

                        fuil agus fior--uisge.

                        In ainm an Athar agus an mhic

                        agus an Spioraid Naoimh. Amen.

 LAKES

 Loch Bhaine: 

The greater part of this lake is in Ballinaglera.  Some say it derives its name from the white

flower called 'an ceannabhan' while others say bhaine means milk (bainne) after the prolific cow, an 'Glas Gaibhne."

Loch Gorm:

Partly in Glangevlin (Knock Gorm) and in Ballinaqlera.  It derives its name from the townland of Knock Gorm.  Not far from this lake but in Ballinaglera, Cloch an tSagairt can be seen. It derives its name from the stone dwelling where the priest from Glangevlin rested on his way to Ballinaglera to celebrate Mass during the penal times.  He traveled over the mountain to avoid being caught by English soldiers when a priest's head was worth five pounds.

RIVERS

There is a river in almost every townland. Most of them take the name of the townland through which it flows:

Dubhog: This river rises in the Doirin Lough on the summit of Doirin Mountain.  It derives its name from the black trout found in it.

Moinin: Flows through Moneensauran. 

Tamhnaigh: Flows through Doonmakeever.

All these rivers meet near Carthy's Bridge and form the " Abhann Y Mhor" which is generally accepted as the longest river in Ireland and which joins with the rivulet from Log na Sionna in the townland of Golagh (Gowlat) from which it is called the Shannon.  The Abhann Mhor is the river mentioned in the Book of Magaurans (found in Galway), the annals of Loch Che and the annals of the Four Masters. No mention is made of the Shannon.