School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- Wild sage is used as a cure for a hurt or broken ribs and besom is used to cure pains and rheumatism. It is said that if you write your name around ringworm it would keep it from spreading. A child born after the death of its father can cure wildlife and thrush. The blood of a black cat's tail could cure wildfire also. The seventh son of daughter can cure a sore mouth by breathing into it nine mornings fasting.
Rounds are made in Stouke graveyard every year to cure ailments.
- Collector
- Hannah Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Hayes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- New milk, fresh from the cow, is thought to cure delicate people. Garlic is used to cure coughs. It is boiled in milk, & bulbs are first pricked with a needle.
