School: Carrickerry, Árd-achadh (roll number 11281)
- Location:
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 486
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- Long ago before doctors were numerous people had to rely a good deal on home cures for a great number of complaints. A good number of local doctors or quacks were to be found everywhere. Some of these were supposed to have recourse to charms and other herbs and a few were supposed to be in league with the fairies or good people as they were called.
The seventh consecutive son was in great demand as a doctor and one of these named Jordan lived near Carrickerry and was much sought after. If children had the croup or whooping cough the parents would bring Dr. Jordan along and he would blow his breath on the child seven times fasting and the disease would be cured. Others had charms for stopping a flow of blood and for setting dislocated or broken bones. Some also would consult the fairies and if the patient stood well in the estimation of the good people they would tell the doctor how to remedy the disease. If the chin-cough was about and if a man riding a white horse passed by you would ask him for a cure and anything he would say was supposed to relieve the patient.
Posthumous daughter cures craos-galar. She breathes into the patient's mouth for 3 consecutive mornings. The patient must be fasting.
- Collector
- Mary Danaher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Robert Stack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 95
