School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
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- Collector
- Jim Wilkinson
- Gender
- Male
- 1) Hooslie is a wonderful old cure for sore eyes or tos top a cut from bleeding. Long ago it used to grow over patches at houses. It grew in clusters together. It was hard. But when it is bursted water come out of it & it is put on the cut.
2) Watercrest is good for the lungs. It grows in marsh places.
30 When people take epeleptic fits, if when the first time the mother or someone throw something uncountable over the child he or she will be cure. |(for example ashes, meal, salt or any thing in that lines.
