1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Meelick

School: Meelick (roll number 14592)

Location:
Meelick, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Gearóid Ó Conchobhair
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 314

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 314

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Meelick
  2. XML Page 314
  3. XML “Local Cures”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Cures (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    by bathing their affected parts with its water. Herbs were used by the people very much in former years especially by the people of this district. There is a herb out of which a remedy is got for curing cancer. This cure is handed down from one generation to another and it is the only remedy by which cancer can be cured. A Croagh Phádraic leaf is supposed to be a cure for blisters. The seventh son or daughter in a family is said to have a cure for a ring worm. A posthumous child has a cure for a sore mouth. There were the chief cures used by the old people of the district and some of them are still used.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Winnie Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon