School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- Location:
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: John Bowdren
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Brook Lime:- Scurvy and impure blood.
A sure cure for a whitlow is to put a poultice of hot bread on it. Then put a piece of cloth on the whitlow in order to keep the poultice to it.
Another cure for a wart is t pull nine rushes from the roots. then cover them with manure and according as the rushes will be rotting the warts will be rotting also.
A further cure for a wart is the juice of a dandelion.
A cure for the whooping cough is to cross over a donkey's back and under his belly nine times.
Another cure for the whooping cough is to get water from a brownstone well. Mix it with liquorice, barley sugar, and sugar of candy. Put this then in a earthen-ware jar and bury it in the earth for nine days. After that it is fit for use.
There is a well in a glen in Woodstock, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork from where the Carrigtwohill Waterworks now runs. This well is famous for curing sore eyes and other diseases.
A cur for a corn is to put paraffin oil on it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie J. Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Thomas Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Baile Adaim, Co. Chorcaí
