School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 116
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- Local Cures
Some years ago a great many people relied on home cures for certain diseases and in many districts there were persons very skilful. About a mile from here there lived a man called James Agnew who was known to have cured several people from all classes of skin and blood diseases. There was also another man who lived in Donagh Parish, whom my Grandfather knew well, and he was never known to fail at curing burns. Both these men used nothing only Herbs and strange to say they both died without leaving their cure with any one. There are many other home cures made use of such as for whooping cough. If you get some charity from a man or wife who were both of the same surname before their marriage or from a man who owned a piebald pony, and for Mumps there is a very old remedy of leading the sick person by a donkeys halter three times across a running stream after dusk. These cures may not always prove effective but they are greatly believed in. There is also a strong belief that a child(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clontycasta, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Bernard Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Clontycasta, Co. Monaghan
