School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)cure for sores on your face was to get a herring and tip each sore three times. The sores would be cured. Biles were cured with a poultice of boiled nettles and porridge.
There is a holy well in Termonfeckin called Trinity Well. It is said that there was a woman cured from blindness at this well. She washed her eyes three times in the water and she cured. The old cure for the whooping cough or for a cold was to put a frog in a box and cough into the box and the cough would be cured.
The cure the old people had for consumption was to get a dandelion and squeeze the juice out of it and drink it.
It is said that many of the old people long ago cured many ailments with some of these cures.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blackhall, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Patrick Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blackhall, Co. Louth
