School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 249
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- There are many cures in this locality for diseases. they are;-
If you have a toothache get a little bag of hot salt and put it up to your jaw and it would cure it, a grain of pepper or ginger is good to burn the pain also. If you got a pain in your wrist tie a piece of woolen thread around it and it would cure it. If you got a cat to lick a dirty cut it would cure it. The leaves of the elder tree are good to bring out a thorn. Flax-seed tea is good for a cold in the chest. Milkweed is good for a wart or a corn.
- At the present day all the old local cures are gone for ever. Every little ailment that a person has, they go to the local medical doctor. Long ago when the people suffered(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael O' Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Betty Ville House, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John O' Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Betty Ville House, Co. Limerick
