School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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- (continued from previous page)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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Chatháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moneen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Máirtín Ó Cathain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Moneen, Co. Galway