School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 269
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- The best that old people had for a cold was to drink hot buttermilk and sugar or else, to slice onions and turnips into a basin and cover with sugar, then sleep for a few nights and the juice was a good cure for a cold. To melt washing soda with a match and let it drop on a wort is a cure for it. A stye on the eyelid is cured by touching the stye with nine gooseberry thorns for nine mornings. A cure for ring worm is to melt a lump of soda in parraffin or to touch it with a marriage ring. A cure for boils is to mix soap and sugar together and put it on them. To rub the blue-bug on the sting of an insect is a cure for it. People who had warts used to visit holy wells us it was supposed to cure them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Atarsney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
