School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Sráid na Cathrach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)If the cord tangles the calf may die.
This cure still is practised.
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“One of the oldest cures people had long ago was a cure for warts...”
One of the oldest cures people had long ago, was a cure for warts.
The way they used to cure them was they used to get a bit of fat meat and bury it in the dung.
When the meat would be rotting the wart would be going away.
When the meat would be all rotten the wart would be gone away.
Another cure is one for curing boils.First of all people would get a piece of brown soap and a grain of brown sugar.
Then they mix the two stuffs with an old spoon and heat the mixtures to the fire.
When it is hot it is put to the boil.
After three days the boil would be cured. - Collector
- Pat Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Paddy Coonerty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Rinn na Spáinneach, Co. an Chláir
