School: Cullahill (B.), Rathdowwney (roll number 13136)
- Location:
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Reachtagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 159
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- There were a great many old cures in this district long ago some of which still survive.
In my grandfathers garden there grew a herb called "gladum" which was used for curing a disease on the foot called scurvy.
If a person had a toothache on Palm Sunday he used to chew three leaves of palm at the raising of the Host.
The fat of a goose was stored up and was used for curing pains in the wrists and other joints.
Warts are cured by bathing them in water which had lodged in the crevices of a rock which the person met accidently.
A stye in the eye was cured by prodding it with the thorn of a gooseberry bush.
A woman named Mrs. Whelan used to cure peoples eyes by licking them with her tongue.
At Tobar na Súl in the district of Rathlogan Co. Kilkenny sore eyes were cured. Tobar na Súl is a holy well. The cloth with which the eyes were washed was hung on a bush near by.
It used to be said that if a person could put a frog into his mouth that he would never again have a toothache. People used also smoke worms in their pipes in order to cure a(continues on next page)
