School: Seamar
- Location:
- Shammerdoo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Loideáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 18
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- (continued from previous page)secret for generations. The ointment cures all sorts of swellings and sores. It was advertised at one time as "Kanes will cure Ointment."
A snail rubbed on a wart and left on a wall or tree to die was supposed to remove the wart.
A child born after its fathers death is believed to have a cure for thrush. All he has to do is breathe three times on the person suffering.
The seventh son of a family has a cure for ringworm. A worm is put in his at his birth and left there to die.
For certain ailments it was the custom to make a grave and put the sick person into it and cover him with a light covering of clay.
There were people also who had a remedy for lifting the small tongue. A tea spoon was used in the process. Muster plasters and bran poultices were commonly used in this district long ago. The water collected in the hollow of a rock cured sore eyes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lynskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Lynskey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
