School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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- In the olden times people had many cures and they were very good cures too. Here are a few:
1. For a sore heel get a piece of brown paper and rub soap on the paper and a drop of hot water. Then place this on the heel.
2. For a gum boil, roast a fig at the fire and hold it to the gum.- Collector
- Thomas Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr J. Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- 1. A cure for boils was to melt soap on a spoon and mix it with sugar. 2. A cure for a cold was to boil butter milk and put sugar in it and drink it before going to bed.