School: Clochar na Trócaire (Scoil Naomh Seosaimh) (roll number 13770)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Sheabhlaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)260Thistle grated and fried with unsalted lard and put as a poultice to broken chilblains will cure them. Cut onion or garlic rubbed to unbroken chilblains will cure them. Raw fat bacon is a cure for beeldings and if put to a thorn will draw it out. It also cures stone-bruises.The cures for warts are - If you meet a black snail without looking for it pick it up and rub it to the wart and then put it on the thorn of a black-thorn bush accordiing as the snail withers the wart disappears. Another cure is a fasting spit put on the wart for nine mornings. These are the cures for whooping cough - Put a bumble-bee in a hole in the wall and drive a wooden peg in after it.Ferrets leavings are also a cure for the whooping cough. Nettle tea is a cure for measles.Garlic set before twelve o'clock on Good Friday cures any disease. Cait Ni Gallcobhair.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Gallcobhair
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Cáit Ní Gallcobair
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Siopadóir
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Seán Mac Gabhrain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Aghavas, Co. Leitrim
