School: Ceathrú Clochar
- Location:
- Rocksborough South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Pléimeann
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- 1. Parsley boiled in milk is a very good cure for kidney trouble.
2. Drink plenty of butter-milk if you wish for a sound Liver.
3. Duscaill-age, it grows on the corner of an old house or barn, take a small bit of that and boil it in milk or water, allow it to get cold, and then there is not better cure for weak eye-sight.
4. Young nettles boiled down to jelly, and taken in the month of March, a person need never fear of a rash or other blood-disorders that year.
5. Soot taken in a little water will surely kill worms in children.
6. Dock-leaf for a nettle sting.
7. For a bad sprain, hold the affected part against a running stream.
8. For red eyes is to wash them with tea leafs.
Long ago if a person had the whooping cough the first man that would come the way with a grey horse they would ask him for a cure, and whatever he said, they would use it.
A cure for a sprain is to go the weaver and get a [?] thread from him and tie it round it.
The cure for a sore head is to make a cup of ivy leaves and put it on the head.
- Informant
- James Fahey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Rocksborough South, Co. Mayo
