School: Fahan (roll number 14479)
- Location:
- Fahan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 312
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- (continued from previous page)of stick and wind woollen thread around the end of it and put it into the cow parsley and when I pull the stick up it sucks in water and when I push it down it puts it out.
- Rose Noble is a weed. People used to get the roots and rub them on themselves to cure erysipelas. They used to call it the Rose. There is a crimson rose tree in our garden, which my great, great grand-Aunt used the flower for curing the same disease by mixing it with butter.Dan Mc Naught once had a jag in his hand and it started to swell. He put a poultice of cow manure on it. One day he was at our house and he showed it to me, he had taken the poultice off it. It had swelled up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jean Gillighan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr G Gillighan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Donegal
