School: Kilberry, Athy (roll number 13165)
- Location:
- Kilberry, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Sara Rowan
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- (continued from previous page)a certain cure and never became septic, strange to say. When a person received a cut - even one inflicted with a hay-knife - someone ran to an out-house for a "cobweb" to wrap around it, just as naturally as they now run for "iodine".
A cut on a horse was cured by burning leather belonging to an old boot, then pressing it to powder and mixing it with unsalted butter and applying it to the cut.
A whitloe - a very painful swelling around the finger-nail - commonly on the first finger was cured by dipping the afflicted member three times in the name of the Holy Trinity in the boiling water, in which potatoes were being boiled.
A "sty" or swelling on the eye lash was cured by pointing a gooseberry thorn three times at the sty in the name of the Holy Trinity.
The house-leek is also a wonderful cure for sore eyes. The leaves of the house-leek are boiled in new milk and the eyes are then bathed with the milk on three occasions.
I have heard often that whenever I would meet a person suffering from sore eyes, I should look at the ground immediately and in this way I would be spared the misfortune of getting(continues on next page)- Informant
- Sara Rowan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Múinteoir