School: Newtown (roll number 3275)
- Location:
- Creevagh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conbháidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 290
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- The following is an account of some local cures used by the people long ago. An old cure for mumps is to go in to a pigs sty every day for nine days and rub your face to the inside walls each day
An old cure for warts is to get a potato and it into nine pieces and rub three pieces to them each day for three days; when they are rubbed they should be buried, and according as the pieces of potatoes are rotting away, the warts are also going away
Another cure for ring-worm is, to mix holy water with clay and to keep applying it on every morning, until the skin is almost better.
A cure for chin cough is to get nine pieces of bread from a married pair both having had the same surnames.
An old cure for a stye on the eye is for the persons god-mother or god-father to point nine thorns if a gooseberry bush to the eye on which the sty is.
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mooretown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mooretown, Co. Meath
