School: Fota Island, Belvelly, Cóbh (roll number 11646)
- Location:
- Foaty, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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- Doctor bled you long ago --- draw blood out of a vein - to take the badness out of you.
Ground ivy - great for a cough. Dry it in the sun, put into a pot with water. Draw like tea.Measles.
Sheep's droppings boiled with milk and strained.Whooping Cough
(1) Child put three times under a donkeys stomach. Donkey to have a well defined cross on his back
(2) A snail put in a bottle also milk after a ferretCuts.
Bleeding finger immersed in urine
A cobweb for a deep cut. Also herb SelfhealStye on Eye.
Fasting Spit. A gooseberry thorn or gold ring applied alsoToothache.
A Mouthful of Grass off a grave.Scale on Eye.
Lumps sugarRheumatism.
YarrowPoultices
Sea-weed also cow dung.Tonic.
Wild Sage boiled.(continues on next page)- Informant
- James Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Rosslague, Co. Cork