School: Naomh Pádraig (B.), Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 14784)
- Location:
- Dún Mánmhaí, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Young
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 021
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- (continued from previous page)white horse you would say to him "A fir an capaill báin cad a leigsfidh an truich."
Inward Pains.
Boil wild sage and drink the water. This is a good cure for inward pains or hurts.
Abscess.
Pour hot candle grease on it.
Baby's Stomach
Put a red coal into water and strain the water into the baby's milk.
Chilblanes.
The water in which the smith quenches the red irons in is good for Chilblanes.
Nettle Sting.
The juice of a dock leaf will cure it.
Warts
Rub a burned match to them. Apply the juice of bainne-[?] to them. Put a pebble in a bag for every wart you have and the person who will pick it up the warts will be transferred to that person.
Burns.
Put a raw potatoe on the burn. Boil penny leafs with butter and put them up to the burn. Get the white of an egg and rub it to the burn.
Stop Bleeding.
Put cobwebs on the cut and it will stop Bleeding.
- Collector
- John Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dún Mánmhaí, Co. Chorcaí
