School: An Cruachán (roll number 5243)
- Location:
- Croaghan, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Chearra
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- (continued from previous page)an insect.
Rashes were cured also by rubbing the white juice of a dandelion on it
If the seventh son of a family had seven sons providing that no girls came between the seventh son had a cure. This also applies to daughters the girl having a cure for a sprain
Elderberry wine was often taken for measles or blackberry juice was smeared on them, when the stains wore off the measles were gone.
Sore throats were cured by calling into a barrel three times.
Whooping cough was an ailment which was cured by crawling under a donkey
If a baby had asthma the mother put it in and out under a holly bush and this was supposed to cure it.
Poultices were made of bread for boils, swellings, or festerings. This was to draw the matter.
- Collector
- Vickie Edwards
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygreen, Co. Dhún na nGall
