School: Uragh (C.)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mc Caffrey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 024
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- Many old cures are still in use in the Parish of Kinawley, in the Barony of Tullyhaw Co. of Cavan.
Whooping Cough (or chincough), get a live fish. Pour 3 drops of water out of its mouth into the child's mouth. Put the fish back alive into the water.
2. Lead the child three times round a donkey in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy ghost.
3. Give the child some of the milk that a ferret has left behind.
4. Put a frogs in the child's hand.
Burns: Get a plant called Pollypoden (found growing in walls and in ruins) and boil it for a whole day with fresh butter. Strain it through a muslin cloth and pour into a vessel to cool. It makes a green ointment which heals burns.
Warts: Dip the warts in water that collects in a hollow in an outside stone. As the water dries up the warts disappear.
2. Get a black snail, rub it to them and put it on a brush. Repeat this for nine(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Bella Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 94
- Address
- Swanlinbar, Co. Cavan
