School: Sruthar (C.)
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- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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- (continued from previous page)good for new shoes, as it preserves the leather, and the old people always used to rub it on a corn, as it is very good for softening the corn.
- Unsalted butter is used for many purposes. When my mother makes a churning, she always puts a [?] of unsalted butter on the side of the dresser. Unsalted butter is a very good cure for cuts and sores of all description. If a cow had a sore udder to rub unsalted butter on it, is a very good cure. To rub unsalted butter on a sty is a very good home cure.
Goose-grease is very useful. My mother keeps it in a jam jar in the dresser. Long ago[?] the people did not use polish at all. They used to rub goose-grease on their shoes, and it was much better for the leather than polish. It used to soften the leather, and made it fine. Goose-grease is very good for swollen arms, and legs, if you rub goose-grease of it the swelling will reduce. - The people up to the present day consider unsalted butter a great cure for a lot of sores and swelling. Long ago the people considered unsalted butter mixed with the juice of buachaill tighe, a great remady for boils, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhán Ní Chearbhaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Carroll
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo