School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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- (continued from previous page)tea or in new milk and that would cure them
Pains Goose grease will cure pains if it is rubbed to them
Blistering Long ago before they got anything for blistering they used nettles
Corns If you went bare-foot wheeling turf in the bog or if you walked in the dew of the grass it would cure corns
Clotted blood Leeches were used for taking clotted blood from around cuts
Bleeding people who suffered from certain diseases was common and if anyone was always complaining people would say to him "I wish you were bled in the heel with a gumlet and if they wanted to stop a bleeding they would put a cobweb to it
Anna Maria Cummins aged 13 and a half yrs I got this information from my grandmother Mrs Boyce, aged 67 who resides at Carrickedmond
Colehill
Monaghan
- Collector
- Anna Maria Cummins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Boyce
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Carrickedmond, Co. Longford
