School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 122
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: Coillíní Carrowkelly
- XML Page 122
- XML “Local 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
- Chin coughh
The cure for this is to give seating to a ferret Give him more than he will eat and give the remainder to the child who had the "chin cough" Also give asses milk to a child who has the chin cough. A person you has a white male and if you ash him no matter what he says is a cure
Ringworm
The following is known to be the cure of "ringworm". The seventh son or daughter has that cure, but when born they should be put riding on a gray horse and a worm in his hand. If it's the seventh son or daughter the warm will die and go in dust in the child's hand, and even after the child takes a worm in his hand he'll die go go to in dust. The days for doing the cure are Mondays, Thursdays, and Mondays. (?). A posthumous child has the cure for(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr O' Hora
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathroeen, Co. Mayo
