School: Druim an Easbuig
- Location:
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Á. Ní Dhálaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 220
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: Druim an Easbuig
- XML Page 220
- XML “Local 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
- The old people had a "home cure" for every disease. They had cures for the ringworm, burns, a wart, a sprain, and boils. Some particular man in the district would have the cure of one of these. Anyone who had any of those diseases used to go to the right man, and he would cure the disease. The old people believed there was a cure in dandelion. They used to make tea out of the dandelion. This liquid was called dandelion tea. It was not very pleasant to drink, but the old people did not mind drinking it, so long as there was a cure in it.
If a person had ringworm, soot was put on it. A sprain was bathed in bog water. There are many(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghclogh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Bernard Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greaghclogh, Co. Cavan
