School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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- A cure for hooves in calves is to light a fire in an outhouse and to fill the house with smoke, and to let the cattle in there for a few a few hours. Spurge is a cure for warts.
- Collector
- Thomas Meade
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Andrew Meade
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Cork
- Hot porter is the best for measles.A cure for a pain in the ear is the ribbon that it put out St. Brigid's night.
It will also cure a head-ache.A cure for a worm in a cows tail is to cut the hair off the tail and put a cut about six inches long half-way up the tail and then put a fist of salt into the cut.