School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 023
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- (continued from previous page)people would boil butter milk and sugar and drink it while it was hot.
If a person had a swollen foot he would bathe it in bog-water and put chicken-weed on it.
In case of fever the hair of the head would be shaved off.
Olive oil was a cure for a scald or a burn.
For a weak heart, the people used to turn a cupful of oatmeal upside down, on the heart and they would say some prayers, and according to the weakness of the heart, the meal would leave the cup.
Lick a man-keeper's back for the cure of a burn.
Forge-water is the cure for the warts.
Blue is a cure for the sting of a bee.
Another cure for warts was to go out early in the morning and the first black snail met was rubbed to the warts, then the snail was hung on a thorn, and when the snail would wither the warts would also wither.
Poteen is a cure for rheumatism.
A piece of straw was a cure for a 'crick' in the neck.
Nine goose-berry thorns for a 'stye' on the eye.
Sugar candy and vinegar for a cold.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Conan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
