School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)almost immediately. There is a thread for a sprain called "spraining thread". This thread is got in Killerra graveyard. The person who goes there has to bring a thread and leave it in the grave-yard instead of the thread he took away. If you swallow a mankeeper you have to eat salt for a week.
For scurvy mix sheep dip with lamp oil and put it on the affected spot.
For the hiccough eat a piece of salt. Sheep dip put on corns will cure them. Another cure is to walk in your bare feet in a wet bog.
For worms steep lime and the water that is on the top will cure the one who has the worms. There is a well below Ballintogher called the "Spa Well". The water that is in this well is a cure for worms. The water is good only in Summer and Autumn.
A cure for a burn is to lick a man-keeper. The one who licks the man-keeper is supposed to have the cure in his tongue. When a patient is brought to him he has to lick the burn. Then it begins to get better.
A cure for a fallen pallet is to catch the person by the "Ribe cuarail" [?] and lift him up. Then the patient will be cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Billa, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Irwin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Billa, Co. Sligo
