School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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- was a poultice of bread steeped in hot water.
An old cure for the measles was sheeps milk.
- Collector
- Michael Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Gob Nua, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Cures for sore throat, cuts, burns, warts, colds, measles, corns, boils.
A cure for sore throat is to put hot salt in a stocking and tie it on your neck.
Cure for cuts is to get a lick of a dog's tongue on the cut.
Cure for burns is to put soda on it.
Warts to put a snail on it, and stick a thorn through him. When the snail is dead the warts are supposed to be gone.
Colds - to get a hot drink of milk or a drink of rum. Measles to drink sheeps milk. Corns - Salty water to pare the corn and let the salty water into it and do it for a couple of nights. Boils - a poultice of linseedmeal.
Poultices of linseedmeal, a poultice of saop and fine sugar, a poultice of the root of cumfarry. This is a plant that grows in potatoes. It has a big leaf the root is black.(continues on next page) - (continued from previous page)Rheumatism, consumption, warts, boil, cuts or sores, swellings sore eyes, and a cut from a thorn.
A cure for rheumatism is celery eaten raw, or celery
