School: Craig Dhubh

Location:
Cregduff, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Giobúin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 450

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 450

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Craig Dhubh
  2. XML Page 450
  3. XML “Cures”

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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    pledged by a toothache to say three times for three days the pain would go.
    2. Toothache: Toothache was cured in a very easy way long ago. They got some of the water in which he cooled his hot irons they rubbed it on the toothache and it went.
    3. Tálac: They had a very good cure for talac long ago. They cut out a piece of leather and tied it round and it very tight.
    4. Sprains. They cured sprains in the ankles in a very easy way. They got a piece of the weavers thread and tied it round the ankle. The sprain went in a week.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English