School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0013, Page 208

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    In former times the people scarcely ever went to a doctor as they made use of herbs for cures. They used to cure Yellow Jaundice by drinking the juice of primrose roots boiled in new milk.
    If a person had Whooping Cough and met a man with a white horse and asked a cure whatever he told them to take would cure them. It used to be cured also by going in between a chestnut horse's legs three times for three days, and at the end of that time to an oat-cake baked in a mill.
    There is a little red flower called "Eyebright" which cures a stye in the eye when the juice is applied. A Stye is also by getting ten gooseberry thorns and blessing the eye with nine and the tenth is thrown away.
    Ringworm was cured by applying to it a poultice made from bluestone mixed with the Alder tree berries. There is
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Caitlín Ní Chatháin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moneen, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Máirtín Ó Cathain
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 50
    Address
    Moneen, Co. Galway