School: Darley
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Newburn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 045
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Darley
- XML Page 045
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Boils:- Boil milk and bread. Put on as a poultice.
Cut:- A judge who lived in Bellemont Cootehill one day cut his face and hand. He went to a well in the land of Mr W Hammond, Benwilt [?], Dairy Brae, Cootehill. He washed his hand and face in the water of the well. This cured the cuts in two days.
Burn:- Strip the bark of green elderberry branches in the summer. Fry gently for a couple of hours in lard or unsalted sheeps fat. The ointment produced should be kept in a jar. It should be of a nice green colour. (From Miss A. Jackson, Knockcroghery, Co Roscommon. She got it from her mother many years ago.)
Worms in calves or fits in dogs:- Boil garlic in milk and give warm to calves or dogs which have not been fed for 24 hours. (Miss A. Jackson, Knockcroghery, Roscommon
