School: Ballygar (C)
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 070
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- 1. To cure a bile people mix soap and sugar and put it on a brown paper and leave it on the bile.
2. To cure sore eyes people wash them in hot tea without milk. When people have a cough they warm butter-milk and put sugar through it.
3. To cure ringworm the people mix suplher and butter and put it on the ringworm.
4. When people get a sore ear they grease a bit of wool and put it into it.
5. When people get a sore throat they put roast potatoes into a woollen scarf and then put it around their throat.
6. A cure for a sore ear - onions roasted on a griddle and put between the folds of a cloth and then put to the ear.
7. A cure for a wart - is to get a match and rub it on the wart until it disappears.
8. The cure for a sore throat - is salt browned in a pan.
9. The cure for a sore eye - is to secure nine gooseberry thorns and point one after another to the eye.
10. Rough blades of grass would cure mumps.
11. If a person holds a swollen hand to a flowing stream it will reduce the swelling.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Mullooly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
