School: Cill Fhíonáin (B.) (roll number 15992)
- Location:
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)Bathing a sprained leg in bran water gives relief. A mixture of mashed turnips and fresh lard ripens a boil or any lump in the body.
Sore feet when bathed in water in which root of the common lily is boiled gets relief. The water in which parsnips are boiled is a cure for chilblains. The fat of a hedgehog is a cure for deafness. Draw flowers of cowslip for five minutes as you would draw tea add milk and drink at bed-time. This is a cure for insomnia. Ordinary blue used in washing clothes is a cure for a wasp sting.
- Some years ago there lived in Darnstown, Kilfinane a married couple whose names were O'Reilly. They had a family of two children a boy and a girl who were very young. One of the children died on a certain day and the other a week later. The corpses of these children were completely different from the children's appearance of their bodies whilst they were alive. When the children were buried for a considerable time an old woman visited the grief-stricken parents and begged for alms which they gladly gave to her. Before the old woman left she thanked them and told them if they wished to see their beloved children to go to(continues on next page)
