School: Araglin (C.), Cill Úird (roll number 9248)
- Location:
- Araglin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)There is a well in the parish of Mitchelstown not far from my house when cripples are cured. It is called St. Fanahan's Well.
These cripples should stay at the well overnight and should see the saint in the form of a fish before they would be cured. Some people who had sore eyes took a piece of moss that grows in the well and rubbed it to their eyes; several people were thus cured.
For a burn, a very good cure the old people say, is ivy leaves. You must boil the leaves with very little water and the juice is used as a poultice for a burn but the leaves are of no use.
Long ago if people broke a leg or a hand they would go to quacks to be cured. The people of this locality give home made honey to children for the thrush.
People say that if a child had the whooping cough and if you gave him or her food left over by a ferret it would cure them. In(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Moye
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Coolmoohan, Co. Cork
