School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: John Bowdren
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 053
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- XML Page 053
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Bread soda is a great cure for a burn also cow dung if put on the burn as soon as we get it. The skin of an egg is also good for a burn.
A great cure for a sore eye is cold tea.
Brownstone water is good for sore eyes also.
An ivy leaf steeped in vinegar is a cure for corns.
Leaves of a mullien tree boiled is a cure for a cold.
A cure for a toothache is to put a frog into your mouth and hold him by the legs.
A fasting spit is a great cure for a wart.
To find a drop of water in a rock without looking for it is another great cure for a wart. Dip the wart into it and it will wither away.
Soap and sugar made into a poultice is a great cure for a boil.
A cure for a headache is to tie a handkerchief damped with vinegar around your forehead.
Put a red coal into a sop of damp hay and hold your toes over it to put back chilblains.
Linseed meal is a poultice for an abscess.
A a great cure for a sprained leg or hand is to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie J. Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ballyadam, Co. Cork
