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)an old woman to cure it. The old woman went out and brought in a bundle of leaves and got the grinding stone and ground them and out them up to the man's arm and in a few days the man's arm was alright again.
- In days gone by the people had nearly a cure for every sickness. At that time they had no need for a doctor they doctored themselves. The cure they had for a cut was a cob-web or others would used a weed called buachalan. They had another cure for to stop a persons nose from bleeding too much to put a key on his back inside his clothes and then to have him lie on his back. They would say a cure for a backache was to have another person walk on it. A ferrits milk was a cure for whooping. Also the god-father of the child that had the whooping cough should steal a piece of a goats ear and twist a string around it Then they would put it on the childs neck and they would say that it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Bhreór
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyspillane East, Co. Cork
