School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- (continued from previous page)the badness from a wound, while the other side heals the wound.
Thomas Kenny, Calla, Kilconnell.
- 2. To cure whooping-cough the milk left after a ferret was drunk. Aspen-leaves boiled in water was another cure. A dockleaf cures a nettle-burn. By leaving nine gooseberry thorns (and leave them) one after another on a sty people removed a sty in a night.
One time there was a man in our village who had a lump under his chin. It was very sore and he could not eat anything. A woman named Mary Finnerty told him to get a few snails and break them up and make a poultice of them. The man did so and the next morning the lump was broken.
Garlic cured lumps on a person's hand.
To cure a cold a person drank buttermilk boiled with meal and sugar added.
Thomas Cahill,
Lisnascreena. - 3. A plantain leaf cured a burn. Foxglove cured a sore throat. Goose-grease cured a cramp.
John Power,
Fohenagh. - Informant
- John Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
