School: Réidhleán (Measctha), Áth an Chóiste
- Location:
- Rylane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 269
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- (continued from previous page)If you visited there for sore teeth, and chew the grass off his grave your teeth would rot away without pain.A black sheep's wool was used to cure colds in the head, by putting it into the ear.
- Between Rusheen and Macroom there is a well called "Tobar Dearg" and people visit it and pay rounds there, to be cured of Rheumatism. It is said that if a child with measles crawled three times between a donkey's hind and fore legs it would be cured.It is also said, that, if a person with stomach trouble, ate a leaf of a Dandelion they would be cured.A child born on Good Friday, and christened on Easter Sunday, was able to cure a disease in houses called "Fancy."
- Collector
- Dan Sexton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagoun, Co. Cork
- Some people were able to make poultices for burns, and scalds, one was made as follows. A few glasses of sweet oil, and some fresh lard, and the yolks of three or four eggs, were mixed up together(continues on next page)
