School: Muclagh, Aughrim
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhuibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0921, Page 089
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- Local Cures
A cure for a worm in a cow's tail is garlic and salt mixed up together and rubbed on the tail.
A cure for a ring worm is sulpher and grease heated and rubbed on the worm.
The milk that the ferret leaves after him is good for the whooping cough.
A cure for a child with a bad chest is cut a hen open alive and put the child's feet down in the hen. The heat of the hen sucks down the inflamation.
When a child has the whooping cough the people put the child in under an ass three times and make the Sign of the Cross on it every time.
There is a herb growing in Rosahane graveyard that is a cure for a pain in your back.
House leek is a cure for sore eyes. It is a weed that grows on thatched houses.
The seventh son or daughter is supposed to have a cure for ringworms(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygobban, Co. Wicklow
