School: Árd-achadh (B.) (roll number 14075)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Musgrave
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 022
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- Information collected from:-John Lane, Glenastar, Ardagh.If a child suffered from a disease called the thrush in the mouth. It should be taken nine mornings fasting and held so that a gander may breathe in its mouth and on the tenth morning it is supposed to be cured.Ferrets leavings are a cure for the whooping cough. A hay-mouse cures kidney trouble. The mouse was boiled and the juice given to the sufferer.If you met a man with a grey horse and asked him what would cure the whooping cough. Anything he would say would cure it.A cure for a burn is a pigs (?). It is placed as a dressing on the burn. Anybody suffering from sore legs and sore eyes, used to bathe the sores with moss and water.
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John Mulling,
Farran, Ardagh.People sought cures from their ailments in former times from the herbs, weeds, plants and wells. A rag was used for sciatica(continues on next page) - Informant
- John Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farranatlaba, Co. Limerick
