School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)
- Location:
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 276](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1118%2FCBES_1118_276.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 276
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney
- XML Page 276
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)sprained limb under falling spring water. The higher the water falls the better.
Burned leather until it becomes like ashes and then mixed with butter and made into a kind of ointment was used by people in Glenagivney to cure the ringworm in cattle or other animals.
Tobacco is generally applied to cuts to stop bleeding.
"Tail slip" in cattle is cured by cutting the infected part and applying salt and soot and garlic to it. This kills the worm that caused this disease.
Calves "scannan" is the name given locally to the film that covers newly born calf and this is sometimes preserved behind the byre door or somewhere and is used for healing purposes.
Foxes tongues were used long ago to cure extract stabs or jags from people feet and hands.
To cure festerings people here applied [?] boiled potatoes to the fester in order to draw it, when the fester breaks, sugar and soap mixed are used to draw it.
Black leg in cattle is cured by cutting a hole in the loose flesh between the animals fore legs and a string is drawn through it,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Crumlish
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Dan Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neil Crumlish
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40