School: Cnoc na gCóirne
- Location:
- Knocknagornagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coinnigh
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- (continued from previous page)To cure a "sty", prick it with the thorn of a gooseberry bush.
- To cure a cold put a poultice of yellow veal to your neck.
To soften a cough, they boiled the roots of nettles and drank the juice. - Informant
- Thomas Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- To find by accident a stone with a hollow in the middle of it provides a cure for most diseases.
To cure and banish warts rub them over with a black snail.
To cure a pain in the side, rub it with the tallow of a candle that has burned at a wake.
To soften a cough, drink the jelly made by boiling blackberries in milk.
Those who suffer from nerves would do well to drink buttermilk in which some dandelion has been steeped.
For sore eyes, bathe them with luke-warm water applied by the big daisy.
Three drops of blood from a pure black cat is a cure for most diseases.
Three meals of nettles in May will banish "rash".
If a person having the whooping cough should meet a man mounted on a white horse and should ask him for a cure, he would be almost certain to supply one.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Teresa Barrett
- Gender
- Female
