School: Sruthar (C.)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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- LeigheasannaLong ago the people were too poor to pay doctors, and there were home cures for pains, cuts, fevers, children's sickness, and many minor ailments.
Cobwebs were considered a good cure for bleeding, and paraffin oil was also used to stop bleeding. Paraffin oil was considered very good for pains in the bones.
If a dog bit a person, a rib of his hair was put on the bitten part. A dog's lick is good for sores. The first spittle in the morning was a cure for an old sore. For boils, a plaster made with plain soap and brown sugar, on brown paper, was a very good cure.
Ivy leaves and cabbage leaves were very good for corrupted sores. The seventh son was said to have a cure for boils.
Any person born on Xmas day was supposed to have a cure for rheumatism. My sister, Christina Keleghan, has the cure.
If a black snail was rubbed on warts, and then stuck on a thorn bush; when the snail was completely withered, the warts were also withered.
Another cure for warts was to cut a turnip in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jessie Keleghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Keleghan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
