School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)
- Location:
- Kyle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0397, Page 079
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- (continued from previous page)and to drink the milk.
XI
The cure for bloodpoison was to roast Groundsil on a fire shovel and to put the hot Groundsil on the sore.
XII
Another old cure was to peel a raw potato and to grate it into sour milk.
XIII
The old cure the people of my locality had for a cut on their body was to put a cobweb on it.
XIV
The old cure for the Measels was to boil sheep coak in a saucepan and then to boil new milk and to squeeze the juice of the coak into the milk and to drink it.
XV
The old cure for the Thrush was Borax and Glyserne.
XVI
The old people say that the seventh son in this district has a cure for ring-worm.
XVII
There is a well in my locality locally known as Tobareen na [?]Nualatan because the old people say that it has a cure for vomiting and some people got the cure.
XVIII
The old people put a rag out on St Brigids night and it is supposed to cloth St Brigid when she travels and if a person had a head-ache or a Toothache they would put the rag on it because it is supposed to be blessed and it is thought to have a cure.
- Collector
- Maggie Landers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr P. Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
