School: Aill Bhreac (roll number 12103)
- Location:
- Aillebrack, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eilís Bean Mhic Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0005, Page 163
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- Whooping cough: To drink asses milk, or to go under an asses belly three times.
Scarlit fever: To boil the roots of nettles and drink the juice.
Cracked lips: To place the cover of the root of cupóg on cracked lips.
In curable diseases: Ladies Mantle, to leave it on the wound, or boil it and drink it.
Consumption: To cut the roots of the garlic, and eat it, and also to put the garlic in the soles of people's shoes.
Diseases of children's Tongues: To get a white gander and screech it into the childs neck.
Swoollen legs: To get a certain sea-weed and leave it on the swoollen legs.
Toothache: To put the finger of a corpse in to the mouth.
: To put a spurneanntóg in a bottle and bury it in the ground
: To drink water from the pool in a forge.
Warts: To wash the warts in an unexpected three cornered pool of water.
Corns: To scrape a potato and leave the pulp to dry until it becomes starchy then apply it to the corns.
Sore throats: To tie the sole of the stocking you(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Connolly
- Gender
- Female
