School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)

Location:
Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire Nic Aodha
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  1. Uses for Goose Grease
    1. If a person had a pain on his hip, to heat some of it by the fire, and to put it with the pain, inside a white flannel cloth.
    2. The old people say it is good to put some of it with scabs.
    3. My Grandmother in Polnahallia has a jam pot of goose grease upside her in the bed to rub it of a pain in her neck every night going to bed.
    4. Goose grease is also used for cart grease. To roast the goose grease and a bit sheep's tallow. When it is roasted to put it in jam pots, and leave it there until it is black and hard.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie May Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tom Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Derrymore, Co. Galway
  2. Uses for Unsalted Butter
    1. The old people say if the hens have a disease, to give them unsalted butter through their food.
    2. If chickens have the pip, to melt some unsalted butter in milk and to give it to them.
    3. If calves have a cough, to get some sulfur and to mix it with the unsalted butter and to give it to them.
    4. If you could not take paint out of your hands to wash them with unsalted butter.
    5. The old people use it on their hair, if their hair is grey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie May Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Tom Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Derrymore, Co. Galway