Scoil: Ringaskiddy (Mixed) (uimhir rolla 14710)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “Our great-grandmother did not go to town or city for bottle or box from the chemist ship to cure their ills.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   For whooping cough in children the milk of a mare donkey was given them to drink. To cure headaches for which our solace is a cup of tea, a bunch of burning feathers was held under the nose, this was also done for fainting fits. Warts was cured by the milky fluid which was extracted from the stem of the dandelion and also the chicken weed. Corn were cured by the penny leaf - a leaf shaped like a penny found growing in the crevices of walls - which would be roasted in front of the fire applied in the morning and renewed at night. For sore eyes a lotion was made from elder-berries, steeped in boiling water and allowed to cool. Even the common nettle had its use. In early Spring when vegetables were scarce the nettle was boiled and eaten, nettle beer was freely taken for the blood, and in the month of May three consecutive meals of boiled nettles were supposed to keep fevers away. For collic or cramp a decoction made from sloes

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Rosaleen Mc Carthy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Florence Enright

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   74

   Gairm bheatha

   Soldier (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Rinn an Scidígh, Co. Chorcaí