School: Sráid na Cille, Cathair Dhún Iascaigh (roll number 15184)
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Déoirín Ní Ragháil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0570, Page 005
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- There are many people whom doctors have not been able to cure who have been cured by herbs that grown wild in fields. One herbal cure is a herb foxglove which cures disorder of the heart.
Some animals can cure also, a ferret is able to cure whooping cough, by drinking a little milk which the ferret has left, one can soon be cured. There is also a cure for burns in a lizard's head.
In this district there is a Holy Well called Tobhradh Íosa or in English the well of Jesus, which is supposed to cure all sickness.
Cold water is a cure for a sprained ankle or wrist.
Two sorts of poultices are good for sores or cuts, bread poultices and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hope Hunter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Hunter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 40
- Address
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
