School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Faing, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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- Get brook lime from around a well and boil it. When boiled, cut ginger into it and plenty of sugar. Boil it again and put it into a bottle. This will cure a cough.
Cure for a wart
Put elder blossoms into a bottle and put paper over the top. Put holes in the paper with a pin and hang it in the sun. The liquid that comes out of it will cure chilblains. Hide meat in the ground and as the meat is decaying the wart will be getting better.
Cure for a cut
Put a dandelion leaf around a cut or put a cobweb on it.
A cure for a sty
Rub a gold ring to it or rub cold black tea to it.
Marie Ni Chonriogh
Foynes Girls School
Got above from
Mrs J King
Foynes
Got from
Mr. Wm Jackson RIP
Foynes
80 years
- Collector
- Máire Ní Chonríogh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs J. King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faing, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Mr William Jackson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Faing, Co. Luimnigh
