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 099
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- (continued from previous page)is a very dangerous sore.
6. Boiled butter-milk is a good cure for a "sore" throat.
7. Turpentine and the white of an egg mixed together is a good cure for pains and "rheumatism"
8. Lamp-oil and red flannel is also a cure for "rheumatism"
9. The leaves of wild violets is another cure for an "evil"
10. Boiled flax-seed and rum is a cure for a "cough"
11. Butter-milk and the juice of a lemon mixed together is good for removing freckles.
Written by: Thomas Lyng
Told by: Mrs Lyng (Age 64)
- Long ago people had several old cures.
1. A cure for a sty is to prod the sign of the cross on it three times. Another cure for a sty is to make the sign of the cross on it with a gold ring.
2. A cure for a wart is to rub a snail on it; stick a snail on a "sciog", and as the snail decays the wart will also decay. Another cure for a wart is to make three crosses out of three straws and bury them, and as the straws decay the wart will also decay.
3. A lick of a dog would heal a cut.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
