School: Teampoll na Carraige, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 15947)
- Location:
- Templenacarriga South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Peadar Seymour
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- (continued from previous page)They used to boil them and wash it in water A cure for consumpetion was a weed called cois dubh They used to boil it and drink it. There is a well in Templebodan called St John's well and the people make rounds there. There was a woman and she was blind she was making rounds and praying at the well and she had that faith in the water. And one day she went to take a drink of water and she saw a trout in the bottom of the well and she had been blind for years previous to that day and from that day on she was able to see. There is a blessed well in Broomfield called St Robins well and they used make rounds there and often they were cured.
- In olden times the people knew nothing about doctors. They had their own cures. The cure at that time for a toothtahe was to crack a frogs leg between the toothache [in] one and the upper one. Also they had a cobweb to put in the cut to keep it from bleeding. Long ago two men were working in a field and one of them left the pipe fall and it stuck in the other mans arm. This caused a big cut. He went to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mháire Ní Lóchnáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyedmond, Co. Cork
