School: Maigh Locha (Cailíní)

Location:
Moylough, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Challaráin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 097

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 097

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Maigh Locha (Cailíní)
  2. XML Page 097
  3. XML “Local Cures”
  4. 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

  1. 1. This was cured by old women. It was supposed that a rib was turned in this causing a pain in the side. This was cured by the person going to bed. A tumbler of hot water was pressed on the side and then it took out the rib.
    A pain.
    1 What was left after the twelfth night was kept up. When anyone had a pain they broke it into twelve parts in honour of the twelve apostles and left it on the pain and it was cured.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Clancy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moylough, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Pat Clancy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    84
    Address
    Moylough, Co. Galway