School: Ardagh (roll number 15035)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: L. Ó Maolghuala
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- Long ago people had old cures. Everybody had a cure for some disease. Cures for the whooping cough are what a married couple of the same name would leave after their breakfast. Or to put the person in and out three times under a mare ass. A cure for warts is to go out on a dry morning and if you found a black snale without looking for it rub it to the warts and stick it on a thorn of a black-thorn bush and when it would wither the warts would go away. Another cure for the whooping cough is if you met a man on a white horse whatever he would tell you would be the cure. A cure for a sprain is to rub goose grease of it. A cure for cold is drink warm buttermilk with sugar in it when you are in bed. To purify the blood put a lump of roach lime in a jug of water and take a glass of it every morning for nine mornings. A cure for worms is boil a herring in new milk and drink some of the milk every morning for nine mornings. If you had corns wash them with bog water. A cure for a bad stomach is boil dandelions and eat them during the day. A cure for a sty in your eye is point a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Dodd
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J.J. Dodd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Druming, Co. Longford