School: Ceapach na bhFaoiteach (C.) Toem (roll number 14792)
- Location:
- Cappagh White, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0542, Page 169
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Long ago the people used herbs and plants as remedies for certain kinds of sickness. It is said that if a child was suffering from the whooping cough and if the parents saw a grey horse passing the door they would go out and ask the driver for a cure and what ever cure he would give them it would cure the child. If a person had a stye in her eye and she looked through her mother’s marriage ring she would be cured. For a sore throat blackberry juice was used. The blackberries were boiled and then put into a little bag and strained and the juice was drank. For ring worm write your name around it with ink sometimes this was successful. For warts wash them in forge water or rub a snail to the warts and put the snail on a thorny bush and according(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Carew
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Square, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs J. Carew
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Siopadóir
- Address
- The Square, Co. Tipperary
