School: Mocklershill, Caiseal (roll number 14256)
- Location:
- Mocklershill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Domhnaill
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- Warts: - juice of spurge; juice of dandelion.
Coughs: - infusion of coltsfoot; syrup of poppies
Chin-cough: - cured by food left behind by ferrets
Antony's Fire: - dried Male Fern
Sore eyes: - "Eyebright" apply leaf to eye. Eyebright is a plant that grows in boggy places
To heal cuts and sores: - ointment made from broad-leaved plantain and lard: Scrofula is cured by the knotty figwort
Burns: - plaster made of laurel-leaves; also hartstongue fern.
Nettle-sting: cured by dock leaf. Jaundice is cured by mint.
Ringworm: washing-soda dissolved in water. Boils: apply poultice of roast cabbage. Blood purifier: three meals of nettles in month of May
Rickets in children: - Forge-water i.e. the water in the trough used by the smith to cool iron. Bleeding: Blood-weed growing on edge of ponds, apply and press out juice of leaf.
In the old church of Railstown there is a waterfont. Anyone drinking the water is cured of disease.
Put a "band"* out on St Brigid's night and you are never sick
If you put on your left boot & stocking first every morning you never get toothache.
Nettle-water cures murrain in cattle
* "band" = a cloth worn round the head for "headache.- Informant
- Pat Croke
- Age
- c. 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coleraine, Co. Tipperary