School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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- Cures for measles, toothache, earache, pains, warts, cuts, bleeding-nose.
Cure for measles is sheeps milk. A cure for toothache is to drink a mouthful of whiskey and hold it in the mouth for a while. A cure for an earache is to put olive oil on a piece of wool and stop both ears with the wool. A cure for pains was to blister the place were the pains are, with nettles. A cure for warts is to rub the warts with fat meat and then hide it in the corner of a field.
To put a cobweb on a cut would stop the blood. A cure for bleeding nose is to lie on the back and hold a cold stone at the back of the neck, or to snuff water up the nose is a cure also.
- Collector
- George Lanigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluan, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Here are some names of ailments, headaches, toothaches, corns, chilblains, pain in the stomach, lumbago, erysipelas, cuts, sore eyes, sore ears, whooping cough, thrush, and boils.
In olden times this is the way the people used to get cured of their ailments. When(continues on next page)
