School: Ughtyneill (roll number 12897)
- Location:
- Ughtyneill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad, Bean Uí Chinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 168
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- There is a species of insects called
a dorb resembling a black clock
that is frequently found in
Stagnant water and if a beast
when drinking happens to swallow
one of them it causes the animal
to swell. The cure in olden times
was to bore an auger-hole in
a tree and to catch a grass
mouse and to pack it into the
auger-hole and to leave it there
until it died and by the time
it was dead the animal was well
of the swelling. Another cure was
to procure a piece of a garment worn
by a person named Cassidy, and
have it burned under the animal's
nose which was said to have the
effect of causing a cure. Swellingof
the udder and milk fever in cows
was usually treated by bathing the
udder with a decoction of confrey,
a plant that used to be cultivated in
gardens for the purpose and applied to the
affected part while hot. The operation was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brighidh Ní Gabhann
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Screeboge, Co. Meath
