School: Ballyfasey, Glenmore (roll number 9880)
- Location:
- Ballyfasy Lower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 547
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- In olden times the people of this locality used as a cure for measles sheep's dung mixed with onions and boiled in milk. When this is drunk it is believed that it will cure the measles.
As a cure for a toothache they used to fill their mouths with cold water and hold their heads over the fire until the water boiled in their mouths.
As a cure for sore eyes they used to wash their eyes in cold tea.
There is a stone in Kilcolm and if a person had a pain in his head and if he put his head in one place and his thumbs in another place and his knees in another place it would be cured.
As a cure for a sting of a nettle they used the sap of the dock-leaf.
- Collector
- William Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
