School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 101
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- In olden times people would boil garlic in sweet milk and say it was a perfect cure for TB.
Others would say roanberries and onions boiled together in sweet milk was also a perfect cure for the same ailment.
Any of the people who had pains would use the fat of the goose and say it would cure them by rubbing it into their bones.
When they got a pain in their neck they would go out to the pig-sty and tie straws around the pigs neck and say "hurrish a muc" and the pig would take it.
For burns they would go out to the field and get a lady's planting leaf and roast it and apply it to the burn.
For a cut on the finger they would apply a piece of fat bacon.
For curing children of the measles they would make whey from sweet and sour mixed.
For the whooping cough they would milk an ass and give it to the children to drink. They would also scrape a turnip and fill up the hole with brown sugar and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellie Hennessy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
