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School: Grianán (roll number 13178)

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Greenans, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máiréad Bean Uí Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0094, Page 215

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    There is a plant called Saint Patrick's cabbage growing on a rock near our house if left on a bleeding cut it will stop bleeding.
    If you drink the juice of mountain sedge when it is boiled it will cure a cough.
    A ferrets' leavings is a good cure for the whooping cough and three drops of water from a live trouts' mouth is another cure for the whooping cough, If a woman marries a man the same name as himself she has a cure for the whooping cough.
    If comphric is washed and the black skin taken off and the inside scraped and put on a white cloth and put on a cut it will cure it.
    If you take a bit of skin off an oak tree and boil it and put the juice of it on a boil it will cure it.
    If you have a cough and drink ass's milk it will cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    There is a plant called "Saint Patrick's cabbage growing on a rock near our house if left on a bleeding cut it will stop bleeding.
    If you drink the juice of "Mountain sedge" when it is boiled it will cure a cough.
    A ferret's leavings is a good cure for the whooping cough and three drops of water from a live trout's mouth is another cure for the whooping cough. If a woman marries a man the same name as herself she has a cure for the whooping cough.
    If comphrie is washed and the black skin taken off and the inside scraped and put on a white cloth and put on a cut it will cure it.
    If you take a bit of skin off an oak tree and boil it and put the juice of it on a boil it will cure it.
    If you have a cough and drink ass's milk it will cure it.
    Mary Healy
    Pontoon
    Foxford
    I got this information from my Grandmother
    Sarah Healy (74 years old)
    Pontoon
    Foxford
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pontoon, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Sarah Healy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Pontoon, Co. Mayo