School: Cornagon (roll number 15690)
- Location:
- Cornagon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Frank Heeran
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 011
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- (continued from previous page)oatmeal as a poultice to it.
The beelding was cured by boiling soap and sugar and applying this as a poultice to it.
The sprain was cured by pouring bog water on the sprained part.
Corns were cured by walking on the soft spongy bog.
The worms can be cured by the seventh boy in the family.
The pain in the stomach was cured by eating dandelion.
The boil was cured by roasting chicken weed and applying it as poultice to the boil.
The running sole was healed by putting a plant called "healing leaf" along with unsalted butter, or lard and melting them on the fire.Then all the oil is bruised out of the leaves. When this oil is let stand for a while it will turn to a green ointment. When this ointment is applied to a running sole it will cure it.
The pain in the back was cured by crawling out under an opening in a rock .
A bad stomach was cured by eating a dandelion.
A burn was also cured by licking a loughaleech's? back, a child that has never seen his or her fatherhas the cure of the burn.
Rheumatism was cured by applying celery seed as a poultice.
A cold was cured by drinking linseed boiled with water and sugar.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madge Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrabarrack, Co. Leitrim
