School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

Location:
Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 090

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 090

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Rossinver.
    A cure for a swelling of any description is a certain weed called chicken weed there is a cure for a certain disease, so to be sure that the cure required is obtained and a complete branch of this is applied.
    There is an old woman called Mrs Leonard living in Uragh Kinlough, that gives a bottle composed of juice of certain herbs mixed with butter, for a swollen cow's udder and like other cures is kept secret by the owner.
    A cure for Ringworm is daisy
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    The senior class
    Informant
    Information received from their parents