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School: Guaire (Goorey) (roll number 7929)

Location:
Goorey, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Úna M. Montgomery
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 30

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    Bog bean is used for cleaning the blood and broom bushes is also used. Briar roots are dug and boiled and used as a cure for sore feet. Holy wells are visited as cures for toothace and other ailments. If you keep a goat on your farm you will never take ringworm. Ground ivy is a cure for a cold.
    Garlic is a cure for disease in fowls and also a cure for "sliptail" in cows. Seeds of garlic and soot and butter are all broken up together and put on a cloth. The cows tail is cut with a knife and the poultice is put on the cut.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Robert Platt
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Malin Head, Co. Donegal