School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0246
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- (continued from previous page)and escort them to the home cheering ang singing. There is a day of feasting spent. There is a special wedding cake made and a very rich one. The bride and bridegroom cut it together and everyone for breakfast gets some of this cakes. The bride is not to go home for a month after the marriage.
- Local Cures
Long ago people believed in cures of their own making.
1 In the month of March they boiled young nettles and eat them. They purified the blood and kept away rash and skin disease.
2. They boiled ripe elderberries into strong red wine. It cured a bad cough.
3 There is a man in Carrahulla that can cure yellow jaundice and his name is John Quinn. He pulls herbs that grow in the fields. He boils and strains them into a little bottle. He can not tell anyone the secret as it is handed from father to son.
4. IF anyone had a violent pain in his head they put brown paper steeped in vinegar to it.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Willie Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killaan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killaan, Co. Galway
