School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)
- Location:
- Grange West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
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If a person had Yellow Jaundice to boil dandelion and to drink the juice of it was supposed to be a cure.
It was believed in olden times that paraffin oil and washing soda boiled together would cure Ringwork if rubbed to it. - It was an old cure for warts to pick a thorn off a gooseberry bush for every wart and bury them in the ground and as the thorns decayed the warts were supposed to disappear off the person's hands.
It was a cure for asty on the eye to make the Sign of th Cross on it.
It was believed that a cure for stopping the blood of a cut finger was to wind a spider's web around(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Kiely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Kiely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Grange West, Co. Cork