School: Cill Mhuire, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 13942)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 557
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- (continued from previous page)Bronchitis.
Dandelion is a great cure for bronchitis.
Headache.
The cure for a headache is to put brown paper steeped in vinegar to your head.
Heartburn.
The cure for a heartburn is to pick cockles, save them, draw them in a teapot like tea and drink it.
A Bad Stomach.
The cure for a bad stomach is buttermilk without any water, put into a jar with 1/2 lb. brown sugar and milk. Shake the lot well, cork it tightly and bury it in the ground for 9 days. Then take it up and drink a cup of it fading every morning.
The cure for a stye is to bless the eye three times with a gold ring.
Bleeding from the hands or feet.
Get three blades of water grass (?) and leave them down across the wound saying "In the name of The Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
- Informant
- Mrs Mamie Mc Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Quilty, Co. Clare
