School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- (continued from previous page)the milk and gave it to the patient to drink. A sore throat was helped by tying a goat's ear around the neck. Whooping Cough was cured by placing the sufferer under a donkey. This was done three times. A toothache was cured by putting a small lump of lime in the tooth. Cuts were healed by putting fresh cow manure on them or having a dog to lick them. Sore eye would be washed in strong black tea and to rub the fasting spit three times to them.
For a sty on the eye, the sufferer should go to a widow and she would rub her ring on it. - Many old cures, which rather disgust us nowadays, were handed down for generations. Whooping-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emelda Ní Dálaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mr Ellen Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77