School: Tullaroan (B.) (roll number 1302)
- Location:
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Daniel Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 062
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- A lot of old people around Tullaroan believe in old cures. One of them cures is to carry a potato in your pocket to keep away Rheumatish.
Another old cure is to get a snail and rub it on a wart, then put the snail on a thorn, and as the snail withers away the wart withers away. Jack Bergin who lives in the village of Tullaroan told me if I ever had a cut to rub goose grease on it. He also told me a ferret's leavings would cure the chin cough.
Another old cure for a toothache is to mix salt and hot water then rince the mouth with it. Some old people believed in curing a ring-worm by rubbing a burned stick on it.
- Collector
- Peter Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr J. Bergin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
