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School: Kilmacowen (roll number 14441)

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Kilmacowen, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Mac Giolla Pheadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 025

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    butter-milk, garlic, - boiled and dandiline.
    Corn - Cure, = house-leek, soap and salt-water.
    Fire-burn, = flour and lamp-oil.
    Nettle-burn, = Docking-leaves.
    Whooping-Cough = Ferret's leavings.
    Tooth-Ache = Soote and to chew tobacco.
    Head-Aches = A cup of boiling water as hot as possible.
    There are also a few others but I cannot think of them at present.
    Any old cures that are left are vanishing by degrees and the few which are left are very seldom used in my local district.
    I have heard the above written cures from Laurence Mac Hugh who lives in the townland of Kilmacowen where he was born and reared. He is 65 years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael J. Gilgan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Laurence Mac Hugh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Kilmacowen, Co. Sligo