School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- Long ago there were no doctors or nurses to tell the people how to cure sores or diseases the people had to use some prescription of their own.
A frog was used in some way for curing a toothache. The frog was put into the mouth. If it roared three times it was supposed to cure the toothache.
To eat snails is a cure for consumption. Thrush comes on young childrens mouths. It comes first in little white lumps. Then all the throat gets sore. A cure for this is honey and glycerine.
If you dip your finger in a hole in a flag where water lodges, it will cure warts. The water in the forge which which cools the irons is also a cure for warts.
When people had headaches there were certain people in the districts who could measure their heads, and it would cure them. This was supposed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Norah Colohan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Birch Grove, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mary Colohan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 23
- Occupation
- Nurse
- Address
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
