School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na Sluagh
- Location:
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Sr. M. Oiliféar
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- Local Cures1. In olden times when the people were poor and doctors where scarce, some people, country people in particular, discovered or invented certain cures for different ailments. For instance a person suffering from ringworm often travelled a long journey to find a man who was the seventh son of a seventh son, as this man who was said to have a cure for ring worm or any such sores or rash. A person born after its father's death is supposed to have a cure for "thrush". There was a cure for the whooping cough, it is the food that was left after a ferret. There was also another cure, it was to ask the first man they met, who was driving a white horse, for advice as to how they would cure it. They often watched for days for a man on a white horse. There is also another cure which was used most, it was to crawl in and out under an ass'es legs. There was a cure for warts. If you found water in an unusual place on a tree or rock or stone, this was supposed to be a cure. There was chicken weed to be boiled in milk was a(continues on next page)
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- Miss Eily Ahern
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garbally Demesne, Co. Galway