School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Béal na mBuillí, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)of those wells was a cure for a toothache and vomiting. They also believed that if you washed your face in the dew of the grass on May morning before sunrise, that you would not get sunburned that year.
- A man and woman who had the same name before marriage have the cure for foul mouth and whooping cough. The seventh son of a family has the cure for yellow jaundice. A black snail rubbed on a wart is supposed to cure it. Another cure for a wart is to wash in water that has lodged in a hole in a stone. Garlic boiled on milk is a great cure for a cough. If put in stacks it keeps rats away. Ferret's leavings of milk cure whooping cough.
- Collector
- Freda Lennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal na mBuillí, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Bill Carolan
- Gender
- Male
