School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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Written by Michael Reilly Castletara Castletara
Collected from Michal Brady Lisatoo Laragh CavanThe measles were cured by taking hot whiskey or the juice of boiled nettle roots.
The jaundice was cured by drinking the juice of boiled leaves of the jaundice bush.
The mumps were cured by putting a donkey's winkers on the sick person and bring the around the pig stye.
Consumption is cured by mashing up snails and drinking their soup.
Patrick Newman Listegan can cure a strain.
When two people get married if the girl has not to change her name she can cure chin cough. She would give the sick person a peice of bread.
A burn is cured by rubbing a little soap on the burned part.
A wart is cured by rubbing a black snail to it or by rubbing water out of a wart well and putting in a pin or by rubbing Lourdes water on it.
- Collector
- Michael Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michal Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisatoo, Co. Cavan
