School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 215
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- (2) There is a flower called "Early Spring" the root of which cures piles.
- To cure an itch rub ink on it.
- To cure scalds the white of an egg rubbed on the scalds will keep them from blistering. It will also kill the pain.
- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Julia Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- The way to cure a scald is to get lard and laurel leaves and boil them together. When they are about an hour boiling you are to take it up and take the water off them and leave it to harden. When it is hard you are to rub it on the scald once every day until the scald is better.
- Rub cream of milk on them before going to bed.
- Rub cream of milk on them before going to bed.
- Long ago the people used put the rind of the churn on them
- Put a poultice of linseed meal on them boiling hot
