School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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- Collector
- Mary Cremin
- Gender
- Female
- Red earth was used as a poultice for "Boils". Cow-dung was also applied as a poultice to "Boils".
A cure for a headache was to wrap a cloth named "brat brighdhe" around the affected part. "brat brighdhe" was a cloth put on the hedge the night before St. Brighid's day - 1st February. - A grain of barley used be put in the person's ear who had whooping cough. Yarrow is still given as a cure for rheumatism; it muse be plucked root flower and all well washed and boiled and the water in which it is boiled.(continues on next page)