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School: Crois Bhóthar

Location:
Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0116

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    Heart-Failure: The juice of pressed dandelions.
    Sprained ankle: Chickweed warmed.
    Yellow Jaundice: Dock leaves boiled
    Rheumatism: To bottle "síol froganna" and cork it. Then bury it in the manure pit for a few days, and rub it on the place where the pain is.
    Burns: Alderbark boiled in unsalted butter and mixed with the slime of the boghole and a plaster made of it.
    Ear-ache: The juice of grated onion, also, blask sheep's wool, if got without asking.
    Cancer: The blood of a black cat's tail.
    Do bhéadh an [?] mac in a dhodtúir
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Phléamonn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tuam, Co. Galway