School: Árd-achadh (B.) (roll number 14075)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Musgrave
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 021
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- (continued from previous page)toothache and headaches, and the ointment made from the juice of the stems was supposed to cure wounds.The gander's breath was supposed to cure the thrush. A child that never saw its father had a cure for that ailment.An old remedy for the whooping cough was to take a bottle of new milk to a house where a ferret is kept, and to let him drink a little of it. Give whatever he has left to the person that has the cough. Another remedy was, if a man with a white horse passed your house, to ask him for a cure. Whatever he would suggest to you, was looked on as a cure.As a cure for sprains, people used comfrey. Wash and scrape the roots. Put it on a cloth that is very sticky. Put it up to the swollen part. Some people leave it on for a week, and more put a fresh plaster on every day. It is very good for sprains.Another cure in former days, was paying rounds at Holy wells. If the person was unable to go. A friend would go and pay the rounds for them, on the following way. Take up 9 stones and go round the well saying the Rosary. Drop a stone each time in front of the well.
- Collector
- James Brouder
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Timothy Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reerasta South, Co. Limerick
