School: Kilsarcon (C.) (roll number 14798)
- Location:
- Kilsarkan West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Caitrín Ní Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 383
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- (continued from previous page)work for its living. Saturday's child is loving and giving, while the child born on the Sabbath day, is blithe, bonny good, and gay.Yellow jaundice.
Herbs were used for curing yellow jaundiceSeventh son
The seventh son is, in a family without any daughter in between, was supposed to have a cure for any kind of a sore.
There were two old women living in Brosna called Miss Moriarty, and they used to make a plaster with herbs called "the green plaster" that would cure all sorts of sores. People came home from Cork and Dublin hospitals incurable by doctors, and this plaster cured them.Whooping cough
The little hairy worm you would see walking on the road was put into a little box alive, and put it up to the throat until he died.Sprained ankle
The cure for a sprained ankle was to put chicken-weed to itChin cough
If you put a young baby under a donkey's neck three times it was a good cure for the chin-cough(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraross, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Michael Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Curraross, Co. Kerry
