School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)
- Location:
- Áth Trasna, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna
- XML Page 223
- XML “Local Cures”
- 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
- Another cure for Thrush is to let a posthumous child breathe in to the patient's mouth.
- Red earth was used as a poultice for "Boils". Cow-dung was also applied as a poultice to "Boils".
A cure for a headache was to wrap a cloth named "brat brighdhe" around the affected part. "brat brighdhe" was a cloth put on the hedge the night before St. Brighid's day - 1st February. - A grain of barley used be put in the person's ear who had whooping cough. Yarrow is still given as a cure for rheumatism; it muse be plucked root flower and all well washed and boiled and the water in which it is boiled.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Cronin
- Gender
- Female