School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 021
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- People had local cures for ailments formerly.
There is a cure for the pain in the back.
There is a well at Lasser, in Kilronan, there is a stone flag on four pillars about two feet high, and the people to be cured have to go under it three times for the cure pain in the back.
The cure for the chin cough is ferret's leavings.
The people bring milk to the ferret to drink and take it away before he has it all drunk.
Another cure for the chin cough is, to go under an ass foal that nobody rode on.
The family of the seven sons that have no sister in between and the seventh son of the family has the power to cure the ring worm.
The cure of the nettle is, docken juce.
The cure of the momps, is, to cross a river three times
The cure of the jaundice is, the wood of a certain tree boiled in milk, (thats the cure of the jaundice)
The cure for the strain foot is, to wash the foot in potato water.
The cure of the sty in the eye is, to pick ten thorns off the gooseberry bush, and throw away one, and point nine to the sty and throw them away the people who have the sty must point them them nine times.
- Informant
- Mrs Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Knockadrehid, Co. Roscommon
