School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)
- Location:
- Cross, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Mac Niocail
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- (continued from previous page)Pain in the ear: Roasted onion and apply to ear.
Pain in the stomach: for an infant they would hold it by the feet and let the head hang down for a few seconds.
Stone bruise: For a stone bruise on the foot there was a cure in a plant called Buachaill an Tighe which grows on the sides of houses.
Mrs. Mahony, Cross, Claremorris, Co. Mayo - Local Cures.
If a person had a toothache it was an old custom to get soda and hot milk. To give milk to a ferret and all that he would leave after him that he would not be able to drink, would be a cure for the whooping cough.
Mrs. O'Connor. Derries, Gross, Claremorris.- Informant
- Mrs O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Mayo