School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 061
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- People sought treatments by old cures they made up theirselves.
In the Bloody Bridge their is a stream & if you washed your hands in it & you had warts they would be cured.
All the old people believed very much in leeches. They were got in a pond near Bennetts' Bridge. The people used to bring them in spring water & if you had leg or hand & you put it in the water the leech would suck out the bad blood. If you had cancer in your stomack & you ate a piece of fat meat & then let down a darkaluker [?] it would eat up all the cancer & then come back again.
Sheeps Manure. If you boiled(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eithne Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathcash, Co. Kilkenny
