School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 165
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- A local cure to stop a bleeding hand or foot is cobwebs. The way to cure it is to make the sign of the cross with the cobwebs on the wound. The way to cure a cow with the red murrain is to boil a weed named cranesbill in milk and give it to the cow three times a day until it is cured and it is a cure that saved many local farmers' cows.
A cure that is usually used for boils is to rub a hot potatoe to the boil. There was a man named David Dalton who lived in Knockmoyan and he used to cure toothaches by saying some words and making the sign of the cross.
- Collector
- Nora Mc Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynoony West, Co. Kilkenny
