School: Baile Mhic Aodha (Ballymachugh)
- Location:
- Ballymachugh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ní Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 263
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- 16. To cure scalds in cattles feet you have to get blue-stone and wet it and put it into the animals hoofs. It is very pain-ful for a while.
17. To cure a belly ache in a calf you have to give the animal a ball of blue and hold it on its back, or else a hand ful of soda.
18. To cure thrush in horses feet you have to take off the shoe and make a hole in its hoof and fill it with spirits of salts and stuff the hole with wadding.
19. To cure fits in dogs you have to give them a few drops of Turpentine.
20. To cure pox on cows you have to melt tallow-candle and put it on them.
- Collector
- Tommie Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fortland, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Andrew Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
