School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)Dock leaf cures sore fingers. Spear the flat thistle cures wildfire.To purify the blood boil black-heads and drink the strained liqued. Marsh mallows cure sprains.The roots of the dandelion are good for consumption.A woman named Mrs Hogarty used to make a cough bottle. She boiled ivy leaves and added liquorice and whiskey. Then she strained the liqued and bottled it. A woman named Mrs. Carter used to make cough bottles also. She boiled wheat and strained it and she added sugar candy, liquorice and whiskey.
