School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- An Robhar, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 100
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: The Rower (B.), Inistioge
- XML Page 100
- 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
- (continued from previous page)4. Pigs lard and chalk mixed is a great cure for a burn. Another cure for a burn is a flower called hound's tongue mixed with lime water.
5. There is another flower called balm tea. This is a great cure for a sore throat when it is mixed with tea and drank.
6. A boiled turnip pressed on the neck is a great cure for mumps. Another cure for mumps is very hot flower pressed on them.
7. A boiled turnips is a great poultice. Another great poultice is soap and sugar mixed and boiled. These are great poultices for drawing corruption.
8. "Asses saddles", an herb, is a great cure for bad kidneys.
9. "The three little sisters", another herb is a great cure for people with bad blood.
10. The "rag weed" is a great cure for a cancer when it is mixed with other mixtures.
11. A cobweb is a great cure for a cut.
12. A cure for the "chin-cough" is to put the person affected to walk under a donkey's belly three times.
13. The blood of the Cahills, Coolraney(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
