School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 351
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- A stye in the eye: This is caused by getting a thorn of a gooseberry bush, and pointing it at the star three times, every morning for nine mornings. I then bury the thorn, and the stye gets better.
Sore throat: Roast salt and put it in a stocking, then put round the neck going to bed.
Scald: get the bark of an elder tree and boil it. When it is well boiled, take it up and pound it until it is like paste. Then get a bit of hog's lard and mix it up into an ointment and put it on the scald.
The best cure for muscles, sprains or hurts is goose-grease.
Burns: A man in Lemonaghan is noted for curing burns, by licking the burn with his tongue.
Chin-Cough: The cure for the Chin Cough is to bring a white ass on the floor and let the child that has the Chin Cough go under the ass three times in the name of the Father, Son,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosie Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Tom Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Féar Bán, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
