School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 308
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- A frog is supposed to cure toothache by squeezing him between you teeth until he screeches three times; or to pay a visit to holy well and rub the holy water. For sore eyes rub a fasting spit for nine mornings. Black tea was also a great cure for sore eyes. It was supposed by old people to hold a ganders bill into a child's mouth would cure thrush. Wild sage when boiled down and the water drank was good for hurts. The first man riding on a speckled horse was asked for a cure for chin cough. Whatever he prescribed was supposed to cure.
- Collector
- Maudie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Tim Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lettergorman, Co. Cork
- In olden times some people used to cure their own ailments. The cure for thrush was the lard of geese or gander. Old people say that one time a doctor was walking along the road and he saw a bunch of sage growing on the ditch and he remarked to the people that there was a cure for a hundred people in that bunch. Holy wells were visited for certain ailments. There was a Holy Well visited near Ross. This well was for healing sore eyes. The people used to come to pray on St. John's eve to this well.
