School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)black snail on a tree and leaving it there until it would die.
Water found in a hollow stone was supposed to cure warts also. This water was rubbed on the warts morning and evening, and in the course of a week the warts disappeared.
An inflamed swelling on the edge of the eyelid commonly called a sty, was cured by rubbing it with a fasting spittle every morning until the swelling went down. Sometimes a gold ring was used with equal effect.
For the purification of the blood cooked nettles were eaten during the month of May. This custom is still practised by many.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Nunan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Twohill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnascregga, Co. Cork
