School: Mágh Glas
- Location:
- Moyglass, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)The boiled potatoes and raw potatoes with flour and baked it. At that time the people were stronger than they are now. Long ago the people had only one meal in the day.Máire Ní Dubhgáin
Magh Glas
Loch Riach Baile na Cille
- Every disease has its own cure. The bog onion is supposed to cure rheumatism. The garlic would cure as many and many others. To boil the root of a cowslip and drink the liquid for heart trouble. To boil the root of a dandelion for nerves. To boil batter-milk and oatmeal for a sore throat.Long ago they used to mix brown sugar with the house leek and make ointment form. There was a plant called a milk plant, and milk was got from it for curing warts. If milk was given to a ferrett and the remaining given to a child it would cure it. If a child had the whooping cough and walked under a white donkey stomach it would cure it.It is also believed to put the shape of a gold ring to wild fire for three mornings would cure it. To cure a burn they used to strain, and mix the lime water with sweet oil and this was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maighréad Ní Dubhgáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laggoo, Co. Galway
