School: Cartrún
- Location:
- Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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Cure for a back-ache.
Long ago as the old people were very poor, they had to depend on their own physical sill to cure their sick.
I understand from some information I received a few weeks ago. that some of the remedies for certain ailments were made thus: Any person suffering from a back-ache, was brought to the cleverest man in the district, and he made a poultice known as the "Poor Man's Plaster."
This poultice consisted of "Burgundy Pitch."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilronan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Cruckshanks
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilronan, Co. Roscommon
