School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 433
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- The following is a list of cures some of which are still performed in my locality. A woman by the name of Mrs Moloney, residing at Grangehiggins, Kilmeague, Co Kildare a few miles from my locality, collects herbs, which grow in the bog in Summer and out of which she makes a cure for kidney-trouble. She also makes ointment from herbs that grow in Autumn, which cures poisoned sores.
A woman by the name of Miss Ward, residing at Ballint[?], Kilmeague, Co. Kildare makes certain medicines which cure yellow-jaundice.
Miss Margaret Cooke, residing in my locality can cure a disease called "a thrush" in a person's mouth by blowing her breath into the person's mouth. She can also raise a persons breastbone which has fallen out of place. She has those cures for she was born after her father's death.
My brother, Henry Slattery, residing in my locality, is a seventh son, and can cure lots of diseases including diseased horses, teethaches, etc.
- Collector
- Alice Slattery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Andrew Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
