School: Garryhill
- Location:
- Garryhill, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Riain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0905, Page 289
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Garryhill
- XML Page 289
- XML “Traditional Irish Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Traditional Irish Cures
Cure for Warts: Bury the head of an eel in the ground. When the eel's head rots the wart falls off.
Cure for whooping cough: Pass the affected child in and out under a grey ass three times. Then get the ass to chew a piece of loaf bread. Before he swallows it, take it from him and get the child to eat it.
Another cure for whooping cough: If a girl marries a man of the same surname as herself the brown bread she makes will cure whooping cough.
Cure for hair falling out: Wash the bald parts of the head with sheep's milk.
Cure for any wound: Wash the injured part in one of the many blessed wells in the country
