School: Clochar na Trócaire (Convent of Mercy)
- Location:
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- A bunch of mints tied round the wrist is a remedy for disorders of the Stomach.Nettles gathered in a church-yard and boiled down for a drink cure dropsy.The touch from the hand of a seventh son cures the bite of a mad dog.When a family has been carried off by fever the house where they died may be again inhabited with safety if a certain number of sheep are driven in there to sleep for three nights.Clippings of the hair and nails of a child tied up in a linen cloth and placed under the cradle will cure convulsions.When children are pining away the juice of twelve leaves of fox-glove to be given.When the seventh son is born if a worm is put into his hand and kept there until(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríd Ní Mhathúna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maulicarrane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Seán Ó Mathúna
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Maulicarrane, Co. Cork