School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 216
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilmurry
- XML Page 216
- XML “Local Cures - Boils”
- XML “Local Cures - Measles”
- XML “Local Cures - Erysipelas”
- XML “Local Cures - Hand Cracks”
- XML “Local Cures - Colds”
- XML “Local Cures - Colds”
- XML “Local Cures - Asthma”
- XML “Local Cures - Sty in your Eye”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (2) Fine sugar and soap mixed together put on brown paper will cure biles
- Collector
- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Measels:- hot drinks and punch.
- Erysipselas:- Scorched flour and new white flannel.
- Hand Cracks: A cure for hand cracks is to melt wax and put it into the cracks.
- Colds:- 1. Boiled butter-milk and a lump of butter and sugar is a great cure for a cold.
2.Another cure for a cold is boiled flaxseed and a lemon. - 3. Another cure is black currant jam made into punch.
- Asthma:- Raw turnips and brown sugar.
- Sty in your eye:- Squirt a drop of cows milk from the udder of the cow into the eye,
2. Prod the sty with three gooseberry thorns for nine mornings. The three thorns must be put away in a piece of paper.
