School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)
- Location:
- Derreenneanav, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0467, Page 295
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- Worms in calves - To make the sign of the cross on the calves with a white garment that you wore at Mass.
Measles to get the leaving after a ferret
Toothache to chew the leg of a frog
Cows When cows are sick it is said to boil [?] and to give the juice of them to the cows
Whooping cough It was said in olden times if a child had the whooping cough to put a trout alive into the child's mouth and to put the trout back into the river again.
The people long ago thought that the foxes tongue was a great cure.
If a blackthorn went in a persons foot to put on the tongue it would draw it out.
There is also another cure an ivy leaf put to a sore head.
If a child had a cut in his leg the ribleaf ground up and put on the cut would cure it
The woodbine boiled and the juice from it would cure a sore throat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Egan
- Gender
- Female
