School: Mocklershill, Caiseal (roll number 14256)

Location:
Mocklershill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 013

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  1. Warts: - juice of spurge; juice of dandelion.
    Coughs: - infusion of coltsfoot; syrup of poppies
    Chin-cough: - cured by food left behind by ferrets
    Antony's Fire: - dried Male Fern
    Sore eyes: - "Eyebright" apply leaf to eye. Eyebright is a plant that grows in boggy places
    To heal cuts and sores: - ointment made from broad-leaved plantain and lard: Scrofula is cured by the knotty figwort
    Burns: - plaster made of laurel-leaves; also hartstongue fern.
    Nettle-sting: cured by dock leaf. Jaundice is cured by mint.
    Ringworm: washing-soda dissolved in water. Boils: apply poultice of roast cabbage. Blood purifier: three meals of nettles in month of May
    Rickets in children: - Forge-water i.e. the water in the trough used by the smith to cool iron. Bleeding: Blood-weed growing on edge of ponds, apply and press out juice of leaf.
    In the old church of Railstown there is a waterfont. Anyone drinking the water is cured of disease.
    Put a "band"* out on St Brigid's night and you are never sick
    If you put on your left boot & stocking first every morning you never get toothache.
    Nettle-water cures murrain in cattle
    * "band" = a cloth worn round the head for "headache.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Pat Croke
    Age
    c. 70
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Coleraine, Co. Tipperary