School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)

Location:
Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 284

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 284

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    The people moistened cotton wool in whiskey and put it into the defective tooth when they had a toothache. The poor people that could not afford the price of whiskey they used pepper.
    Earache:
    For an earache (they) the people dipped sheeps wool in castor-oil and dropped it into the ear. They left it there until the pain was gone.
    Sore legs:
    The people used some oil to cure the sore in this locality. There was a woman named Mrs Culhane living in Ballinacarriga. She had peculiar babits about her. She often suffered from sore feet. Her cure was to go out in the fields and gather bullagadans. She cut them in two and applied the brown stuff that came from it to the sores. She said that it was her best cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Neuralgia
    By blistering the nerve of the thumb with mustard and taking a good draught of J.J and Sons it relieves the pain.
    Craw Sickness:
    A Repetition of the previous dose with the addition of Seidlitz Powder cures this disease.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maurice Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    67
    Address
    Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick