School: Ardagh (roll number 15035)

Location:
Ardagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
L. Ó Maolghuala
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 251

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 251

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  1. Long ago people had old cures. Everybody had a cure for some disease. Cures for the whooping cough are what a married couple of the same name would leave after their breakfast. Or to put the person in and out three times under a mare ass. A cure for warts is to go out on a dry morning and if you found a black snale without looking for it rub it to the warts and stick it on a thorn of a black-thorn bush and when it would wither the warts would go away. Another cure for the whooping cough is if you met a man on a white horse whatever he would tell you would be the cure. A cure for a sprain is to rub goose grease of it. A cure for cold is drink warm buttermilk with sugar in it when you are in bed. To purify the blood put a lump of roach lime in a jug of water and take a glass of it every morning for nine mornings. A cure for worms is boil a herring in new milk and drink some of the milk every morning for nine mornings. If you had corns wash them with bog water. A cure for a bad stomach is boil dandelions and eat them during the day. A cure for a sty in your eye is point a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Dodd
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr J.J. Dodd
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Druming, Co. Longford