School: Shanakill, Roscrea

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   “Miss Elizabeth Prendergast of Clonmore in the townland of Templemore, has a cure for tetters and ringworms...”

   

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   him a half-crown for a mass. Friday is his curing day and after the cure being carried out three Fridays the horse will be better.

   Warts
   There is an evergreen shrub which grows on the end of many thatched houses and it is a cure for warts. You would get a leaf of the shrub and rub it to the wart an it would cure it.

   Sores
   There is a Comfort family living outside Roscrea who have a cure for sores. Sunday, Wednesday and Friday are their curing days. Whatever day you go on you must keep to it.
   Three curing days it takes to cure your sore. You have to do with one meal the curing days or another person could fast for you if he liked.

   Pains
   To break a bit of blessed palm in boiled milk was an old cure for a pain.

   

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2. Local Cures

   “The old people used to cure warts this way. When the meat would be cooking for the dinner...”

   

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   Warts
   The old people used to cure warts this way. When the meat would be cooking for the dinner they used cut off a little piece of meat and make the Sign of the Cross on the wart. They buried the piece of meat. When the meat begins to rot the wart fade away.

   Toothaches
   There was a woman living in Shanakill

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lena Maher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shanakill, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Maher

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shanakill, Co. Tipperary