School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)
- Location:
- Toorard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)get free from them. The poultices they used are, white bread for a sore or swelling. Sugar and soap ground up and boiled are used as a poultice for boils. The seventh son or daughter had cures for all kinds of diseases, some had cures in their spittle for sore lips and others had cures in their breath for "thrush" in a child's mouth. A cure for sore eyes was to rub cold tea to them every morning and every night before going to bed. Holy wells are visited and the water out of them are rubbed to the eyes or affected parts. Long ago holy wells were looked upon as having healing power for all ailments and they visited these wells on certain days and the people who were not able to go were sprinkled with the water or they drank it. The nearest Holy well to this school is St Ben's of Tullylease.
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- Collector
- Andy Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toorard, Co. Cork