School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 512)
- Location:
- Midleton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0395, Page 243
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- In some districts old people believe that herbs and food left behind by animals have a much better healing power than doctors medicines.
In wet weather their is a brown jelly found on sticks and on hedges it is said to heal warts. Another cure for them is to get a snail and to prick him with a white thorn and to rub the stuff to the warts.
Cold Tea is good for sore eyes, also cold tea is good to rub to a burn. If flour is put to a burn it is said to make it less sore.
A wet dock leaf is good for a bad nettle sting. Also blue is supposed to reduce swelling from a bee sting.
Milk left after a Ferrit is good for whooping cough, also old people used to make "The Sign of the Cross" three times under a donkey with a baby who was suffering from whooping cough.
Wild Shamrock found in the ditches cooked with lemon juice is good for colds. Carrigeen Moss has a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Laar
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr O' Sullivan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinacurra, Co. Cork
