School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 232
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- There are many cures that the people had in olden times.
To cure a headache they put out a ribbon on St Brigid's night and if you had a pain in your head any time during the year if you put it around your head it would cure it.
The cure for a toothache was to chew tobacco.
The cure for a pain in the ear was hot olive oil.
The cure for a whitlow was turpentine.
The cure for warts was to get a spoon of Epsom salts and water and rub it to them.
A cure for a pain in the back is to hang out suspenders one St Brigid's night and wear them.
The cure for a stye in the eye was to get a gold ring and blow in through it.
The cure for boils was sugar and soap. The sugar should be broken into powder and mixed with soap and it put on a little square piece and put on the boils.
The cure for a burn of boiling water is to get a cabbage leave and put it around the burn.
This is another cure for a burn. Some people are able to make it. It is. supposed to be made of Laurels and lard.
The cure for a sting of a nettle is a dock leaf.
The cure for the thrush is to get a duck and to put a kippen in the mouth of it and put it up to the child's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Kilfeakle, Co. Tipperary
