1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Carrowrile

School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)

Location:
Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 281

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 281

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: Carrowrile
  2. XML Page 281
  3. 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. Local Cures (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    good for this. Also if you meet a man on a white horse and ask him for the cure. No matter what he tells you even if it were a drink of water it will cure you.
    colds:-Garlic boiled in new milk is very good for colds. Boiled buttermilk is also very good
    cancer:-A woman who lives in Enniscrone has a cure of cancer.
    pain in the bones rheumatism} The root of an orange lily is good for rheumatism. "Gooses name" is also good for this ailment.
    sulphur well There is a sulphur well near Keash to which people go at certain times of the year to get cured of rheumatism.
    Told By:-
    Tom Scanlon
    Rinbane
    Ballinacarrow
    Co. Sligo
    66 years.
    Anna Finn, DO, 14
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Finn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Tom Scanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Rinbaun, Co. Sligo