School: Baile Uí Argáin, Cill Moicheallóg (roll number 7237)
- Location:
- Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: A. Ó Hódhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 057
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- Long ago people made cures of their own. If a person had a toothache he would walk half ways to the dentist and he would be cured. Nettles were used long ago to heal rheumatism. A cure for thrush is to get a child that never saw his father to blow his breath three times into your mouth. People go to holy wells to get cured of sore eyes. They go each morning for nine mornings to be cured. If a person had the whooping cough he should go to mountainy rocks to get a certain herb called Mary's cups which grew amongst the moss and by boiling it in milk you would be cured of it. If a person had a pain in the side he should take up a stone and spit in it and lay it down again and the pain is relieved. If you looked through a gold ring making the sign of the cross each time it would cure a stye.
- Informant
- Mrs T. Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick
