School: Attymass B.

Location:
Attymass, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Flannghaile
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    crisp and then crushed into ashes and put into a cup of tea and drank is the best cure for the mumps.
    Red mourn in cattle.
    It is a great cure to pull the leaves of briars and boil them and give them to cattle that would have the read mourn. A bit of butter rubbed on the udder of cows is also a very good cure.
    Warts
    It is a good cure for warts to go to a stone were there is water lodged in a hole in it and put the wart in the water. The white juice that comes from the steam of a dandelion is a very good cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Hughes
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Bridget Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Carrowkeribly, Co. Mayo