School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (roll number 13500)
- Location:
- Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Longáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 092
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and according as it is whithering the wart withers also.
Sore Eyes
1. Are washed with cold strong black tea.
2. They are also washed with the juice of a plant called the "Buacaill a cuge" which grows on the gables of thatched houses.
Sore Throat
1. Coarse salt is roasted in a pan and put whilst very hot into a woolen stocking and put round the throat.
2. Potatoes are roasted in the fire, then crushed put into a sock and put on the throat.
Rheumatism
The joints are rubbed with slightly heated parrafin oil.
Headache
A drink of strong black tea is taken.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Whyte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownaltore, Co. Mayo
