School: Cill Loiste (Killusty), Fíodh Árd (roll number 16111)
- Location:
- Killusty North, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mheacháir
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- In olden times, people could cure most ailments at home; for instance, an abcees when broken, they put a withered oak leaf to it, to draw out the matter changing the leaf daily until all the badness was drawn out. To cure sprains or bruises, they used a leaf called "March Malis". This they boiled and mixed with hog's lard, and applied it to the injured part. For chest trouble, they got a blue sugar bag, and made into a square, which they soaked with whiskey, and applied then to the persons chest. To cure a toothache they mixed equal quantities of soot and salt, and applied the mixture to a toothache. A cure for warts was to rub the first white snail they met to (the) wart and then stick the snail on a whitethorn bush. As the (snail) decayed, so the wart diminished.
- Collector
- Michael Halpin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boolagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Boolagh, Co. Tipperary