School: Cadamstown, Kinnitty
- Location:
- Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: B. Ní Chuignigh
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- for yellow jaundice - a herb from the field boiled in milk or porter and used four times a day after meals.
for a burn - Laurel leaves fried in lard
Children suffering from whooping cough - they are to be put in under an ass and brought out over his back three times
For a person fainting - the perfume of burned feathers
For a stye - a thorn of a goosberry tree
For pimples - a fasting spittle mixed with dust to be rubbed on
For Ring Worm - gun powder mixed with black ink
To prevent a bruise from swelling - a grit stone to be kept tight on it for a couple of minutes
For warts - a snail to be rubbed on them three times
For rheumatism - white celery.- Collector
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Spink, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Obdt. James Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55