School: Cill Cruain (C) (roll number 11187)
- Location:
- Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Brighid Ní Náradaigh Cáit Bean Uí Standúin
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- (continued from previous page)To cure the whooping cough they would kill a porcupine and drink its soup.When young children had the measles they were advised to drink a donkey's milk as it was a great cure.If a person got the ague and to swallow a live frog it would cure him."Oarglas" a mixture made green leaves and oat porridge was regarded a wonderful cure for wounds and cuts of all descriptions.A crane's spit was a great cure for a burn long ago, and laundry blue is a cure for a sting. "Macra compara" - a green thick herb was a great cure for broken limbs in fowl and garlic soup is a cure for a bad cough.Dock- leaf juice is a great cure for sore lips or for schorches received from nettles.Houseleek and whiskey was a cure for the yellow jaudice.Soap sugar and mashed "buachalan" were cures for stone bruises.A bit of black sheep's wool if steeped in castor oil is said to be a cure for a pain in the year.If a person sufferening from a stye in his eye got a thorn of a gooseberry bush and pointed it seven(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Galway