School: Shanagolden (B.) (roll number 3786)
- Location:
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 279
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- Old Cures.Many years ago a woman named Mrs. Canty lived in Shanagolden, and she had many cures.For the yellow jaundice she made a drink of the branch of the lilac tree, and gave it to the sick person to drink for twenty days, and at the end of that time the sick person would be alright.She used also have a piece of bacon hanging on the hob for seven years and then she used it as a cure for sores, boils and other skin diseases.It was said long ago that a very good cure for a toothache was to get a horse shoe nail from a blacksmith of a third generation of blacksmiths and rub it to the bad tooth. A cure for sores was to put an asses winkers on the person and lead him in and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eoin Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Meaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
