School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)
- Location:
- Baile an Gharraí, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0499, Page 298
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- A cure for a cut is to pour lamp oil on the cut. A cure for whooping cough is to put the sick person under a grey mares stomach. A cure for chincough is to ask a man riding a grey mare what cure he had for chincough and whatever he would say that would cure it. A cure for red-water in cattle is to watch the animal until he makes the red-water and then to stick a brass pin in it. A cure for murrain in cattle is to boil a goose feather and all and to give the soup to the sick animal. A cure for scour in calves is to boil the root of the dandelion and to give the juice to the sick animal. A cure for blast in a cow dug is to milk a drop of the milk into a bucket and then to turn the bucket upside down. A cure for a sore eye is to rub tea leaves to it. Another cure for a sore eye is to look through a gold ring three mornings in succession. A cure for a wart is to hang a snail on a thorn and according as the snail would be rotting the wart would be going away. A cure for a burn is to rub soap to it.
- Collector
- James Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile na Fraince, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Irwin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 37
- Address
- Baile na Fraince, Co. Luimnigh
