School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Lios Teilice Thuaidh, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 459
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: Listellick, Tráighlí
- XML Page 459
- XML “Local Cures”
- 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)The cure for sore eyes or weak sight was to pick the plant called eye-bright and after washing it, to boil (draw) it in hot water and after straining the water the eyes were washed with this strained water - it was the roots that were boiled.
The cure for chil-blains was to bathe them with hot water and then to rub on iodine.
- Long ago the old people used to boil a weed called chicken-weed and this boiled water was supposed to cure sores on the body.
The old people used to go to a grave-yard between 12 and 1 oclock at night and pick nettles. They brought home those nettles and boiled them and this boiled water was rubbed on to body sores.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Pat O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lios Teilice Thuaidh, Co. Chiarraí
