School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 525
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- (continued from previous page)Butter-milk is good for a cold.
Salts is very good for stomachaches or salt and water or soot and salt.
Whiskey is good for a toothache and hold it in your mouth for a half an hour. After the whiskey put real salty water in your mouth for another few minutes and this often banishes a toothache.
Philip Cantlan of Clodiagh is a very good for curing scurvey.
Mrs Brennan of Ballygub is able to stop blood by saying a little prayer.
A good dose of salts and senna is good for boils and pimples. It helps to clear the blood.
Laurence Sheely of Ballygub is a good man about sore eyes and kidney complaint.
The heather on the hill is good for kidney complaint
There is a weed called groundsel it grows in the Spring and it is good for poultices, people long ago used to use it instead of linseed meal poultices.
If a child had a pain long ago the old people used to put him standing on his head and shake him up.
The cure they had for St Anthoney's fire was to take a drop of blood from a lamb or a sheep and put it on the rash. People long ago used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Reid
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygub New, Co. Kilkenny
