School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 160
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Cure (continued)
“There is a little plant called Canavaun Beg...”
(continued from previous page)called Canavaun Beg supposed to be a cure for wasting diseases and when plucking it you were supposed to say "Canavaun Beg on Mount Calvary was found. In the name of God I pluck you from the ground"
Patricia Clarke, aged 11
Told to me by my mother- Mrs Clarke
Sandpitts Co. Dublin
She heard them from her mother now dead.
- Sprains and bruises
Marshallow boiled and the affected part washed with the water from it.
Perspiring feet
Steep some elder leaves in water and wash your feet in the water.
Sting of a nettle
Dock leaf for sting of a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patricia Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Sandpits, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sandpits, Co. Dublin
