School: Tobar Rua (roll number 15427)
- Location:
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)wind blow from the north and the robin sits in the barn is a sign of snow.
- The old people when sick never went to a doctor but made up cures of their own. The following are some of cures:- For consumption a person would swallow a frog or snail. Yellow jaundice was cured by taking a green slammy substance with hot milk. For cuts rib grass or a little green leaf called St. Patrick's leaf was used. For a whitlow they used a piece of fat bacon, boiled porridge or a slice of loaf soaked in boiling water to draw the corruption out. It was believed that whatever cure would be given by the seventh son of a family for ringworm would cure it. For wildfire- a rash which spread- it is said that if a woman left her marriage on the spot it would not spread any wider than the width of the ring. To bathe sore eyes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Barney Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
