School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)a cure was to break up a SNAIL and rub the broken parts to the blister.Poison -: If a child or a big person took poison, the only cure was to drink SOOT. That was the cure for it because it would make the person vomit the poison again. Toothache -: Any person having toothache they put FROG JELLY on the tooth and it stopped the pain.
- Measles.
BURDOCK was used to PUT OUT MEASLES. The root of it was first got, the skin was taken off of it then, and the root was boiled until all the juice left it, sugar candy used be boiled with the juice to put a sweet taste in it.
The FROTH on the top of the MILK when it was milked from the cow was(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Kate Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Timothy Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballybrack, Co. Cork
