School: Fadhbach, Caisleán na Mainge (roll number 10016)
- Location:
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Tíodhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 352
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- (continued from previous page)If you rubbed cow dung to abscess on May day it would cure them. Every morning before breakfast they used put a little gray stone or the [?]clocan liat as they used call them exactly in the same place making the sign of the cross for nine mornings to reduce any lumps or abscess. They used also get the soft part of sea weed and boil it and eat it to cure them from cough or cold. They used to gather sheeps' droppings and boil it in milk to cure them from measles. Black tea is good for sore eyes. If a person had a heartburn and if he ate a raw potato it would cure it. If persons had warts in their hands or feed and to pluck chicken weed and rub it to them would cure them. (If a person had a sore head and to pick)
The first one that would see calf(e) sick with a worm he should strike him nine times in the back with his cap and say each time. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
Kidney
- Collector
- Euge Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- John Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Maggie Barton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyarkane Eighter, Co. Kerry
