School: Bán-Tír (B.) (roll number 2803)
- Location:
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síothcháin
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- 1. Tooth-ache - Catch a frog, roast it in the fire, and then place it in the mouth. This also prevents the teeth from decaying.
2. Corns - (a) Wash the feet in bog-water, and do not dry them with the towel - (b) Wash the feet in potato water. (c) Walk in the dew in the early mornings of May.
3. Warts - Pull a rib from the tail of a horse, and tie it round the wart. Keep squeezing every day, till wart disappears.
- 1. Sores in horses or other animals - Wash the sores with the water from shoe-maker's shop, in which leather has been soaked.
2. Colds - bad health - Liver complaint - Dandelion leaves are put in water, and left to stand beside the fire at least for a night. The "brew" is then drunk while fasting.
3 Sores in childrens' heads - Heat a leaf of green cabbage, and apply it when hot to the head.
4. Boils - Grind snail boxes very finely, and apply as a poultice. - Collector
- Donal Lehane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Daniel Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Banteer, Co. Cork
