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 308
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- The people seemed to have great faith in dirt as a healing agent.
Poultices were made of cow-dung and applied to sores, such as sore breasts.
Fresh cowdung put on ring-work in cattle was supposed to cure it.
Cuts on animals were washed with 'múnlac' from the farm yard to cure them.
Blood was stopped with a cob-web.
Sheep-droppings boiled in milk were given for measles.
Goose droppings boiled in milk for a sick stomach (to make one vomit)
Nine lice put into an egg and eaten for measles (this was heard at both sides of Kenmare Bay)
To cure caterpillars in cabbage, take an infected head and hang it in the chimney and while it lasts there, no more flies will come in the cabbage.
If a beast gets a nail in her foot, put the nail into a potato and if the nail does not get rusty the foot won't get sore.
A strand from the rope with which a person hanged himself is a cure for cancer.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
