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School: Cadamstown, Kinnitty

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Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
B. Ní Chuignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 212

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    Long ago people were very old fashioned but yet very wise. Doctors were not so plentiful as they are now the people got some sichness instead of going to a doctor as we do nowadays, they used homemade cures.
    Some of these cures were, in order to cure a toothache, they ate a weed called yarrow. When they had a headache, they would go to some holy well and drink some of the water from it.
    When they had ringworm they would make a poultice from yellow clay and put it on the ringworm, and it is to be a perfect cure for it. When a person's father is dead before he is born, that person is said to cure thrush.
    To cure a wart they would get water from the hollow of a rock and rub some of it on the wart nine nights in succession. When they had a bleeding, they would put a cobweb on the cut.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Obdt. Christopher Daly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Cadamstown, Co. Offaly