School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0177, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)and on the swelling.Nettle rash : The juice of a docken cure this and while applying the juice this is said "Docken, Docken cure me, nettle, nettle burn.Warts : If a person cuts a potato in two and rubs it to the wart every night for two nights and then throw it away and the warts will disappear.Toothache: If a person gets he tooth of a dead animal and carries it in his pocket for a few days and throws it away then the toothache disappear.
- In olden times, the people had a lot of cures for bad diseases. A woman named Mrs Long of Knocknagee has a cure of
Heart Fever. She got a cup of Indian meal and covered it with a cloth and put it to the persons heart and back three times and nine times in bad cases and a hole went down the centre of the meal if the person was cured.
Head-fever = They used to get their head measured and certain prayers were said which I could not get.
Pain in Back = a seventh child has the cure if they walk on the person suffering.
Chin-cough = People gave milk to a ferret(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Conboy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tully Beg, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Taheny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tully Beg, Co. Sligo
