School: Cill Cruain (B)
- Location:
- Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
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In former times the people in this district had several cures for ailments. The cure for a boil was a poultiee of linseed meal. There is a leaf called a St. Patricks leaf and in it there is a cure for any kind of an ailment. The juice of a dock-leaf is a good cure for a sting of a nettle. The cure for a wart is, if you found water in a stone and to rub it on the wart it would cure it in a short time.
The cure for the yellow-jaundice is the juice of house-leek. The best cure for a pain in one's stomach is to drink hot-milk and bread-soda. If a person had a sty on his eye it would get cured if he pierced it was a goose-berry thorn. Lime-water is a good cure for a bad stomach.
Written by: Joseph Finnegan
Kilsallagh, Castlerea
Co Galway, Ireland.- Collector
- Joseph Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Mannion
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Classaghroe, Co. Galway