School: Carrigaline (C.) (roll number 13513)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teachers: Mrs O' Sullivan Mrs Tully
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 097
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- (continued from previous page)Sprains -
1. Long ago and even to - day, a person suffering from a sprain was taken to a running spring or pump under which the affected part was held.
2. Rub in goosegrease and wear a strong and fairly tight band.
Stomach and back aches -
1. Long ago when hot water jars were unknown a hot plate was applied,
Hot flannel.
And for the back ache, plenty turpentine rubbed in.
In olden times there lived old men and old women who set charms to cure diseases.
One of their charms was, the patient should walk under a blackberry briar nine times, the two ends of which should be growing out of the ground.
If a horse suffered from a gripe, the old man would take off his hat and make the "Cros na Péiste" (Sign of the Cross) on the horse's stomach with a cord held in his hand.
There was a desease known as a "blast" and these old people with the charms cured it without any doctor's aid, ignorant people travelled miles away for these cures.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinrea, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas O' Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Ballinrea, Co. Cork
