School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)

Location:
Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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    great cure. No whiskey in that time.
    Put a lump of suet into a rag - melt it and give ti to drink and that's the physic to cure Measles.
    Cough. Let it wear away as it came, if boiled meal and buttermilk and butter didn't cure it, and the devil sup people had long ago.
    Ring-Worm Scrape round the ringworm and don't let it go any farther. Old soot and salt and mens urine, and tobacco torn up. Steep all these together put in a jar and keep for use of cures for ringworm.
    Warts cured by water that is got in a large stone or old rock.
    Medicine
    All medicine was got almost from the herbs growing on the land.
    Cures 1) When people were sick long ago they used to boil nettles and dockets together and drink the juice.
    2) Boil rusty nails and drink the juice of them is still another cure.
    Ear ache Get a pen and ready the ear. Get a small onion- blacken it in the fire put it into a cloth and put it to the ear.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Informant
    Jude Henry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Faartan, Co. Galway