School: Traceystown (roll number 12156)
- Location:
- Tracystown West, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Proínséas Bean Uí Phearáil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 104
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- The Old Irish had a great knowledge of medicinal herbs and salves, but medicinal knowledge was usually engrafted on superstition.Many of their diseases they attributed to fairy strokes, thus charms and spells entered largely into medicinal treatment.An old Irish recipe for Dysentery was to take three + half pounds of iron, heat it till red-hot then plunge it into three quarts of milk until it cools; this operation to be performed three times till the milk is boiled down to three pints.A recipe for a Sprain was to mix the broken roots of marshmallows with hog's lard and apples as a plaster.Certain prayers were to be said while herbs were being pulled, the herbs were to be boiled only(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Fanning
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Mc Gee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
