School: Attymass B.
- Location:
- Attymass, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Flannghaile
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- Toothache:- The cure for toothache is to drink three doses of salts. If there is a (holole) hole in the tooth put a piece of tobacco in it. They used put garlic in the hole too.
Weak heart:- Boil Caiscriúán caol oonn and drink the juice.
Kidney disease:- Boil the goldenrod and drink the juice.
Indigestion:- To eat the "Oatloth.
Measles:- Boil nettles and drink the juice
Boils:- They used pull a kind of herb and make a plaster out of it for boils.
Rheumatism:- Boil the bark of the willow and drink the juice
Boils:- Boil shamsogs and I put them to them soft when they would be hot.
Chincough:- Asses milk drank is good for Chincough
Piles:- "Plebistheens" a kind of herb is used.
Weak heart:- Boil Mountain sedge and drink the juice.
Sore eyes:- Rub the juice of camamile on your eyes
Mumps:- Go to the pig's sty and say "muicneac" "muicneac" thugar the Leicneac" the pigs are supposed to take the mumps from you.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Mulherin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Mulhern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Boyhollagh, Co. Mayo