School: Coill an Easbuig (Bishopswood), Dundroma
- Location:
- Coill an Easpaig, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 222
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- Chin Cough.
If a person met a man on a grey horse and asked him. What would cure the chin cough? And if the person did what he said. The person with the cough would get better and after a while it would go altogether.
Cuts and sores.
A cabbage leaf burned and put to a cut or sore will cure it.
Warts.
A plant known as tansy, if the stem of this is broken there will be a milky substance come out and if this is put on the wart it will burn it away. Another cure for them is to rub a snail to them and then hang up the snail on a bush.
Boils.
A poultice of soap and sugar put to boils will remove them quickly.
Colds
A very good cure for colds is to take a glass of milk with onions boiled in it.
Blood Poison
If the cut is washed with water in which parsley is boiled and then a poultice of the boiled parsley put to it
Pains.
If a person takes a glass of water in which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coill an Easpaig, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs J. Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coill an Easpaig, Co. Thiobraid Árann
