School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)
- Location:
- An Choill, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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- The people of my locality have some old cures for diseases.
1 The cure for rheumatism is to get wild sage and mint and boil them together.
2The old cure for the thrush is to go under a white donkey's stomach three times and kiss the cross on his back.
3 There is a well in my locality in which there is said to be a cure for rheumatism. The cure is, if you find a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole and to drink the water.
4 Rag-weed is a cure for cuts either on people or on animals.
5 Mull porter is an old cure for the measles.
6 Chicken Pox. Warm porter and milk is a cure for the chicken pox.
7 Mumps. Boiled milk and salt us a cure for the mumps.
8 Whooping Cough. To cut a piece off a goat's ear and tie it to the child's dress, its supposed to be an old cure for the whooping cough.
9 Warts. If you got a snail and rub it to the warts and then put the snail up on a white thorn tree, and when the snail would die the warts would go away.
10 Headaches. To get a red cloth and put it out on a white-thorn- tree on Saint Bridget's night. The cloth is blessed and if you had a headache the cloth(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uí Chaoilte, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Chaoilte, Co. Chorcaí