School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)of the Warts", and it is called and if you bathe your hands and fingers in it the warts will disappear. A certain person in this district washed her hands in it and she did not know at the time of its powers, she got a pleasant surprise when she found her warts were gone.
A remedy for sore eyes was to crawl through an opening, under a looped briar, or through a cleft in a tree.
Home made poultices were applied to swellings, boils and strains. A weed by the name of "Hemlock" was boiled and applied to a sore leg and sprains on horses legs. Dock leaves applied to the blistors effectively cured nettle stings.
Certain people were looked as having healing powers. A smiths seventh son or daughter is supposed to be lucky in marriage. A person born with a "caul" is lucky, and captains of ships are often known to pay a sum of money for one as its possession is supposed to prevent ship-wreck.
- Collector
- Eileen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mrs Coakley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Bean feirmeora
- Address
- Coachford, Co. Cork
