School: Ballybay (C.) (roll number 1345)
- Location:
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- The following cures were collected by Annie Glennon from her mother and neighbours.
1. The cure for a bad cough is to eat garlic.
2. The cure for wild-fire is to spit on the hearth-stone and to mix the ashes with it and then to put it on the sore.
3. The cure for measles is to skin a Granóg and to boil him on milk and to drink its soup.
4. She got the rest from James Cunniffe and John Meeley natives of Curnasee.
4. The cure for Chin-Cough is to boil a granóg and to ate its meal and drink its soup.
5. Ivy leaf cures bunions on your toes.
6. Hot water and salt will keep blood poison from going any further.
7. To cure a sty on your eye you should pull ten gooseberry thorns and point nine of them at the sty and it will cure it.
8. To cure hives boil a sheaf of oats and then hold the sheaf of oats near the hives and let the steam to near the hives.Annie Glennon,
Curnaseer,
Kiltoom.
- Collector
- Annie Lennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Lennon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
