School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 031
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cor Bealaigh
- XML Page 031
- XML “Foods in Olden Times”
- XML “Foods in Olden Times”
- XML “Old-Time 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
- (continued from previous page)and served on plates.
- They would make black puddings. When they would kill a pig the blood would be kept in a basin. They would put oat-meal and salt in it. Then they would eat it.
- Collector
- Anthony Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
- Cures were made long ago out of herbs. Asse's milk and ferrets leavings were cures for chin cough and whooping-cough. Goat's milk was a preventitive of consumption. To eat a little sugar and to hold the wrist of the hand tight was the cure for a hiccough. If a person had worms in his stomach the cure was(continues on next page)
