School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)
- Location:
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Ruairc
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- (continued from previous page)steam them (in) over boiling tea. Herbs and poultices were applied to a wound. The old people believed in a mixture of limewater and sweet oil to cure a severe burn. Certain people also were looked upon as having healing powers. The seventh son has the cure of the ring-worm, the seventh daughter has that cure also.
A posthumous child has the cure of the foul-mouth. Holy-wells were visited by a lot of people suffering from rheumatism, sore feet, and hands and sore eyes.
Long ago in places where mass was read on a rock, there is holy water sence[?] and the people had great faith in this water to relive pains in the back.
To boil raspberries and drink the juice was a cure for a sore neck; boiled blackberries for a bad cough. There are animals too who have cures for certain ailments, there is a great cure in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilís Ní Corcoráin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Corcoran
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
