School: Port Ruadh, Aonach Úrmhumhan (roll number 11367)
- Location:
- Portroe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S.C. Ó Freathaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)into small shavings. They were then both worked together with a knife until there was a smooth paste. It was then spread on a piece of old linen and applied to the sore. This would take all the soreness away after a few nights.
A favourite cure in olden times for bunions, that is, sores on the toes was a very hot poultice of bran which was supposed to take away all the soreness and swelling in a few nights.
In former times when local cures would fail people had great faith in visiting holy wells for certain cures. There is a holy well in this locality which people visit on a certain day each year. If they have any disease they are supposed to take three drinks of the water in succession before being cured.
- Collector
- Michael Seymour
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Landsdown, Co. Tipperary
