School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)to eat a red salt herring and to go to a lake and to start drinking water then all the worms would jump out.
Dandelion leaves when boiled and the juice drunk was the cure for a weak-heart or weak nerves. The roots of the epoosz when boiled and the sough drunk was the cure for head-ache. Melted washing-sods, or rash pimbles in the skin.
- There were many kinds of cures in olden times. These are some of the cures that were used:- It was a custom when a person took a pain, to select some garlic and boil on new milk. Then some of it would be taken. Another cure for a pain was some pepper and ginger on boiled new milk, and a little drop of whiskey or poteen through it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madge Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss Mary Judge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmore, Co. Mayo
