School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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- In this locality where I live the following cures are still common among the old people.
A prod of gooseberry thorn will cure a sty in ones eye.
Many old people in my district say that if you shave yourself with a razor that had shaved a dead man, it would cure a toothache.
People used to wrap a cob-web around cuts to prevent the bleeding.
Dock leaves are very common in my district to stop the pain of a sting of a wasp or a bee.
People used to creep under an ass'belly to cure a pain; also they used to put roasted salt around their neck to cure a sore throat.
Quaker doctors cures prods of thorns with blessed butter in my district.
I got these cures from my father
- Collector
- Annie Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Denis Curran
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
