School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 098
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- (continued from previous page)7. In olden times if a person got a stroke of a stick or a stone they would put a cold flag to the sore and it would keep back the swelling. 8. In olden times if a person got a big cut they would wash it with Jeye's Fluid and the Jeye's fluid would clean the cut. Then they would put ointment to it and it would cure it. Written by: John Walsh
Told by: Honor Walsh
- 1. The cure for "corns" is ivy leaves boiled in new milk. 2. The cure for a "sty" is the sign of the cross cut in it by a goose-berry thorn. 3. The cure for the "sting of a wasp" or a bee, or any other insect, is the juice of an onion. 4. The cure for a "cut" is the leaves of a rag-weed pounded up. 5. Horse-radish is a very good cure for "evil", which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Lyng
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Lyng
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
