School: Shanagolden (B.) (roll number 3786)
- Location:
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loingsigh
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- (continued from previous page)milk and given to drink to the calf.Gripe in calves: To cure this, people dissolved a grain of bread soda in about a cup of parafin oil, and gave it to drink to the calf. If the gripe was thought to be caused by worms, a cure called snaidm na peiste was practised. A cord was knotted loosely into two loops in such a way that when both ends of the cord were drawn, the knots would automatically unravel. When the loops were made the cord was held over the calf's stomach and the ends pulled. This was done three times and the ceremony was supposed to kill the worms in the calf.
Michael Mulvihill got the above from.
Michael Moroney,
Mount David,
Shanagolden.
Age - about 50 years
- Collector
- Michael Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Moroney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Mountdavid, Co. Limerick
