School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Dring, Co. Longford
- Teacher: James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 260
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- There were a lot of cures from herbs long ago. Nettle roots washed clean and boiled and the liquid taken by the person having measles is supposed to be cured. If a party is married and they having the same names their children will have the cure of mumps.
The food left behind after a ferret is a cure for mumps.
The seventh son of a family has a cure for the ring worm.
Some kind of a weed washed and boiled and the water of the weed put into another vessel and left there for a day and then the water is boiled, and it used to be used for a swollen leg or arm.
Long ago people used to use a lot of weeds for cures which are not used at the present day, and people used to give the water of wild weeds to animals for cures.
- Collector
- Peggy Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballinrooey, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Killarah, Co. Cavan
