School: Baile i Meadhon Locha (roll number 344)
- Location:
- Bellanaman, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 120
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- Old Cures
1. It is said to cure corns by dipping them into bog water.
2. Donkey's milk is a cure for measles.
3. Another cure for measles is to boil nettles and then strain the water off them. Mix milk and sugar with it. A drink of this is supposed to cure measels.
4. Boiled butter-milk, boiled with butter and sugar, taken at night to cure cold.
- Informant
- H. Lavery
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Glaslough, Co. Monaghan
- Fish + Fishing.
1 Fish don't take in hard dry weather, nor after a frosty night. In a thunder storm they lie on the bottom of the river.
2 The oil of eels is good for sore ears.
3 Salmon change fresh water to the sea. In the fresh water a scum gathers on their teeth when they go to the salt water it cuts this off their teeth.
4 After a flood there is alway a good catch of fish.
