School: Cill Cruain (B)

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Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
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  1. Local Cures: 16-3-38
    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Finnegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilsallagh, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Mannion
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Classaghroe, Co. Galway