School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 523
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- XML Page 523
- XML “Local Cures”
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)is supposed that if you were going in danger it would be a very good thing to visit that well and bring a bottle of water from it so that you would be able to get through all right. A captain by the name of Casey was going to America from Ireland he brought water from this well. A great storm arose and he escaped all right.
- Erysipelas, corns, rheumatism, cuts, headache, toothache, earache, consumption, St. Anthony's fire, newmonia, measles, warts, chilblains, whooping cough, diptheria, scarlatina, sciatica, cancer,
A cure for corns is a penny leaf. It is the shape of a penny and it is found in the side of a ditch. They boil it in milk.
A cure for rheumatism is to put nettles on the part until it blisters. A cure for cuts is to put a cobweb on the cut to stop it from bleeding. A headache is cured by snuffing up the fumes of whiskey in your nose. Toothaches are cured by putting whiskey in your mouth and leave it there for a while.
A cure for earache is to dip wool in olive oil and put it in the ear.
A cure for St Anthony's fire is to rub ink on the part where the disease is, or Cahill's blood to rub on it, Cahill's blood is the blood from a person named Cahill.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
