School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inse Chloch, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 047
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- (continued from previous page)such as, in St. Bartholomew's well, rounds were made for toothaches.
Milk or food left behind by a ferret was used to cure whooping-cough also. Tobacco was used to break a boil. Poultices were also applied such as linseed poultices and mustard poultices. They were made with flannel or linen lint and linseed or mustard, and applied until the pain was relieved. The seventh son or daughter was looked upon as having certain healing powers. It is said that the seventh son would be a doctor for horses.
To cure sick calves, the people did "Cleas-na-Péisse", over them. The milk of the donkey is also recommended to strengthen the blood, and also for young children that cannot digest their food, as it is supposed to be stronger than that of any other animal. A poultice made up of soap and sugar was used to heal a wound. To put a piece of pork under a stone without being seen is a cure for warts. Another cure was to rub a snail to them and then to stick him on the thorns of a white thorn bush.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cathair an Aon Chrainn, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cluain Uí Ghormáin, Co. Chorcaí
