School: Tír na nEascrach
- Location:
- Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0058, Page 0228
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- Cure for cancer
3 quarts of cow’s urine, boiled with the root of a “dockin” that has come to seed and the leaves of a “healing leaf” (it has two leaves – head shaped and serrated like a primrose leaf).
The mixture has to be boiled down to a quart. This is then mixed with a fresh cow dung and applied as a poultice. He saw in applied by an old woman to a man named Boland who had a cancer on his thigh He said the cancer came out roots and all – the roots were as long as a person’s fingers.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Mullin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cappagh, Co. Galway
