School: Cluain Mhurchais (Hollyford) (roll number 13847)
- Location:
- Áth an Chuilinn, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Liam Ó Donnchadha
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St. Patrick's leaf is a cure for wounds, one side of it heals and the other side draws the matter. Rib-grass is a cure for a bleeding wound or burned-paped (?) if applied immediately stops the blood. a cure for a burn is the inner part of the elder boiled in cream to form ointment is a wonderful cure or if it is rubbed with paraffin oil and bread-soda.Burdock is a plant which has a leaf like rhubarb and when the root of it is boiled cures scurvy.I got this information from James Allis, Leacnachreena.
- Collector
- Alice Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Áth an Chuilinn, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- James Allis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leacain an Chríonaigh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Nine different irons in the shape of a
cross put to a lump or a cut would cure it.
A piece of cooked meat tied to timber in the shape of a cross, and then tied to the (tatch) thatch on St. Martin's night is a cure for cuts.
If the juice of the dandelion is put on warts they soon disappear.
A black cat's blood is a cure for(continues on next page)
