School: An Cheapach, Askeaton
- Location:
- Cappagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Henry Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 178
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- There are a good deal of cures to be found in my district. A toothache was a very severe ailment long ago and the cure was whiskey and pepper to put it up to the jaw. Many people used get cut hands and cure was to put a cobweb up to the cut.
The people nowdays visit holy wells to get cured from blindness. A sprained foot is a disrea disagreable a thing nowdays, and the cure was to put the foot under a pump and pump the cold water down on it.
There is a woman living about three miles from where I live and she is supposed to have to have the power of curing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newbridge, Co. Limerick
