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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Croom, Co. Limerick
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Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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    Under this caption, I am afraid that I will be slow to collect "definite" material. It is there, but to probe for recipes and methods is generally the road to complete failure. However, I give what i have got - in an incidental manner - and perhaps more may follow.
    There was a man in Ballymacscradeen and he could not sit down nor lie down. He had a sore on his backside ag an anus nú b'fheidir ar an dtaobh istigh ann. Old X-Y- made a poultice of snails, seilmidí you know, and cured him in nine days. It was the bad disease he had and ti was cured. (Pat Allen. He supplied me with the name of the patient and the "lady doctor" X-Y), but I only noted the main facts and have now forgotten the names. The "bad disease" is cancer.)
    Jaundice in this area is invariably treated and cured by a "quack." The doctor is not called to deal with it except in very rare instances and even then the results are neither as quickly arrived at nor as satisfactory as when the "nine mornings visit is paid" by the man with the cure. Where I sit writing this note, I saw our local man "making up" the recipe for my wife, who, if colour and the opinion of a clever Limerick City M.D., Dr. Kennedy, count for anything, had a very severe form of it. Our man by name Johnnie Murphy, was immediately commissioned by my wife, when the Dr. had diagnosed her trouble, and each morning for nine mornings he mixed a small quantity of some ingredient with about three
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Daithí O Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Donnchadh O Donnghaile
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Dr Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Doctúir
    Informant
    Harry Costelloe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Garrane, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Jim O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cahirduff, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Liam O Corcorda
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Croom, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Máire Ní Cartaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    19
    Occupation
    Cailín aimsire
    Informant
    Micheal Devaney
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Micheál O Tuathail
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Pat Allen
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tim Hederman
    Gender
    Male