School: Garrysallagh
- Location:
- Garrysallagh (O'Reilly), Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Greally
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)and put salt on it and eat it.
Water Parsley. Water-parsley is cure for kidneys. It is cut in small pieces and some salt is put on it and then eaten.
Slanless. Slanless is the cure for a bleeding cut. Chew the leaf and then put it on the cut.
- There was an old hag living down at Kilnacrott, and her name was Mary Gaffney. She was a very wicked, but she had the cure of every disease that could be thought of. People used to come for miles to this woman for cures especially for the ring-worm. When the people would come to her for any cure she would be very angry with them and many people were afraid to meet her the second time for a cure. The people used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismacanigan Upper, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Patrick Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Lismacanigan Upper, Co. Cavan
